Deborah Denno comments to the Associated Press about Kentucky’s proposed lethal injection procedures, which experts have found vague and unnecessarily secretive about some critical parts of an execution.
“It’s very vague,” said death penalty expert Deborah Denno, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law. “There’s very little transparency.”
Other states, such as California and Ohio, are trying to make the process
safer and more open, Denno said. Kentucky’s protocol seems to stick close to
what has been done before, she said.“It doesn’t seem to try to change in the way other states are at least trying to change,” Denno said.
The entire Associated Press story ran on January 25, 2010.