Deborah Denno quoted in The Guardian about the decision of America’s leading expert on lethal injection drugs to stop offering court testimony as an expert witness and how it has left at least one state without a single doctor to defend its execution procedures from legal challenges.
Dershwitz “has been, for over a decade, probably the most important state’s expert in this particular area”, said Deborah W Denno, an execution expert at Fordham law school.
“I think states are going to be scrambling for lethal injection experts in the same way they’ve been scrambling for drugs,” said Denno, referring to states’ lack of pentobarbital, a barbiturate used to treat epilepsy that is deadly in certain doses. “They don’t have any people testifying on their behalf.”
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