Deborah Denno comments to the Washington Post on a Danish company that announced it was taking steps to try to prevent prison officials in the United States from using a powerful sedative it makes to execute prisoners.
“Lundbeck’s move has serious implications for those states that already use pentobarbital for lethal injection executions as well as those states that were preparing to make the switch,” said Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor who is a death penalty opponent.
“In due time, states will have to find an alternative drug, thereby repeating the cycle that started when states abandoned sodium thiopental. This development throws doubt yet again on the viability of using drug injections as an execution method because surely this cycle has no foreseeable end,” she said.
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