Deborah Denno comments to the Washington Post on Ohio’s execution of an inmate using a single drug previously used to euthanize animals — the first execution of its kind in the United States and a potentially pivotal development in the nation’s emotional battle over capital punishment.
“Ohio is gambling blindly in its rush to execute,” said Deborah W. Denno, a professor of law at Fordham University Law School in New York. “There is no reason why Ohio cannot take the time to devise a constitutionally acceptable execution procedure in the way so many experts have recommended.”
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