Deborah Denno quoted in the New York Times regarding Ohio’s use of a one-drug intravenous lethal injection, a method never before used on a human, to execute a prisoner on death row.
Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor who is an expert on the death penalty and lethal injection, told The Columbus Dispatch that Ohio’s new procedure could be ruled unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court, if it is found not to be “substantially similar” to the three-drug method used by the state of Kentucky, which the court approved last year.
In a statement to reporters, Ms. Denno said that Ohio’s new procedure is “a method of execution never before used on anyone, anywhere.” She added: “This form of execution has egregious problems associated with it, and it contravenes the Supreme Court’s holding last year in Baze v. Rees.”
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