Deborah Denno was quoted in a TRTWorld article about a proposed bill in Arizona that would have death row inmates responsible for providing their own lethal injection drugs.
The confusion over how and where to get lethal injection drugs has led to unprecedented moves by other states. In Arizona, a new bill proposes to have inmates provide their own lethal injection drugs.
“I find that really the worst,” said Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University in New York City who has been studying the death penalty for more than two decades.
“I don’t know what they’re going to do with that. I don’t know how that comes close to something that we’ve ever done before. That’s basically having an inmate conduct their own execution,” Denno explained.
“Executions are supposed to be conducted by the government. The idea that an inmate would bring their own drugs is abdicating the state’s considerable responsibility.”