Deborah Denno comments to Slate about a prison inmate in Utah who died by firing squad in June 2010, marking the state’s first execution by firearms since 1996.
Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham Law School who has studied execution methods for nearly two decades, said she’d pick the firing squad if offered Gardner’s choice between the two methods. “To me, it seems like the more humane choice,” she said.
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