Deborah Denno quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about how Arizona’s lengthy execution of convicted killer Joseph Rudolph Wood III will likely focus more attention on the nation’s next executions, both scheduled for Aug. 6 in Missouri and Texas.
“I think the Department of Corrections [in each state]are really feeling the heat, and the bad thing is the more they feel the heat and more scrutiny they are under, the more secretive they will get,” said Deborah W. Denno, a professor at Fordham Law School and a death penalty expert.
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