Deborah Denno comments to Associated Press on the California attorney general’s office’s dogged five-year legal battle to resume executions, as prison officials try to restock the drug and U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel reconsiders whether the state’s revamped lethal injection procedures amount to cruel and unusual punishment.
“He will decide the constitutionality of California’s execution protocols,” Fordham University law school professor Deborah Denno said. “All this rush wasn’t really allowing him to do so.”
This story appeared in the Associated Press on September 30, 2010.
