Deborah Denno comments to the Los Angeles Times about the single-drug lethal injection method used in Ohio and how it will unlikely gain traction in California because of procedural hurdles and persistent concerns about how the drugs are administered to the condemned.
Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor who opposes the death penalty, said Ohio’s execution of Biros probably will inspire other states to consider adopting that method. But it has done nothing to address the problem executioners often encounter in finding a vein capable of holding the catheter through which the lethal drug or drugs are delivered, she said.
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