Deborah Denno quoted in a New York Times story about a report on the execution of Arizona inmate Joseph Wood III, which said he was injected with 15 times the standard dose of a sedative and a painkiller during a procedure that lasted nearly two hours before he was declared dead.
Deborah W. Denno, a law professor at Fordham University and a death penalty opponent who has studied execution methods, said Friday that the use of numerous doses of drugs whose efficacy as an execution method had already been in question “demonstrates yet again the extraordinary level of reckless disregard and incompetency that departments of corrections bring to the execution process.”
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