Deborah Denno comments to The Nation magazine about the concern that prisoners were being tortured to death at the heart of the landmark 2008 Supreme Court case Baze v. Rees, which sought to decide whether lethal injection as carried out in Kentucky (and most death penalty states) was cruel and unusual punishment.
Fordham law professor Deborah Denno, a leading legal scholar on lethal injection, points out another serious concern.
“Baze said that any other [lethal injection]protocol had to be ‘substantially similar’ to what Kentucky was using. And some of these are not substantially similar protocols,” she says. “In a right world, the Supreme Court should be hearing that.”
Read the entire Nation story.