Why Utah’s ‘gruesome’ firing squads might not be such a bad alternative

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Fordham Law School Professor Deborah Denno, a leading death penalty expert, spoke to The Washington Post about why a firing squad might not be as bad as lethal injection for those facing execution.

“Lethal injection, which has the veneer of medical acceptability, has far greater risks of cruelty to a condemned person,” Fordham University Law School professor Deborah Denno told the Associated Press in 2010. She called the firing squad a “dignified execution.”

Read The Washington Post‘s entire article here.

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