Cruel and Usual?: Is Capital Punishment by Lethal Injection Quick and Painless?

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Deborah Denno speaks to Scientific American about  states’ use of a combination of barbituric, paralytic and toxic agents for executions, despite a lack of scientific evidence supporting their effectiveness.

We were invited to the March 2008 Fordham Urban Law Journal Symposium, “The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science,” by Fordham University School of Law professor Deborah Denno to represent the medical and scientific aspects of it.

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