Deborah Denno comments to the Chattanooga Free Press on Tennessee’s inability to execute 86 killers on death row after the state’s supply of a key lethal injection drug was seized by the federal government.
Yet the drug shortage is providing one of the most significant challenges to the death penalty in decades, said Deborah Denno, professor at Fordham Law School in New York and a death penalty scholar and critic.
“Within the history of the death penalty, this is a very big deal. We’ve never had a situation like this, ever,” she said. “We’ve never run out of gas for gas chambers or rope for hanging or electrical equipment for electric chairs.”
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