Deborah Denno comments in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune about Ohio’s decision to replace a three-drug lethal injection with a powerful dose of one anesthetic is raising the possibility of what may have seemed unthinkable not so long ago: a truce in the long-running legal challenges to death penalty injection across the country.
“Ohio should be commended for trying to come up with something that will work and that they’re breaking away from the other states that clearly have been using something that’s been problematic,” Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor and lethal-injection expert, said Saturday. “It’s just that they have to provide more information.”
The original story came from the Associated Press.
