Deborah Denno comments to Reuters on Ohio’s use of a single dose of a lethal chemical — the first time the method has been used in the United States — to put to death a convicted killer.
Fordham University Law Professor Deborah Denno, an expert on lethal injection, said there were serious problems with the new single-drug method, including the difficulties executioners can have finding a vein.
She said the backup plan could lead to a “slow, lingering death with the inmate in a state of confusion, disorientation, and intense psychological anguish and torment.”
The entire story ran through Reuters new service.