Deborah Denno discusses with the New York Times Ohio’s new method of execution, which involves a large dose of anesthetic and has been hailed by most experts as an improvement over the three-drug cocktail used in all other states, but is unlikely to settle the debate over the death penalty.
Deborah W. Denno, a Fordham University law professor who is an expert on the death penalty and lethal injection, said she believed that the constitutionality of the new state protocol could be challenged if it was found not to be “substantially similar” to the three-drug method used by the State of Kentucky, which the court approved last year.
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