Deborah Denno comments to the Gainesville Sun about a change in execution drugs that could continue to impede Florida executions, while the state faces a perhaps greater challenge over its method of arriving at death sentences.
Differences in execution methods among states could open up a new round of challenges, said Deborah Denno, a Fordham Law School professor who specializes in death penalty issues. While some states have made a change similar to Florida, she said others have switched to another drug or replaced the three-drug cocktail with a single drug.
That could lead the U.S. Supreme Court to again consider whether the variety of methods meets the standards of its previous decision, she said.
“There was safety in numbers” but having multiple methods “starts to raise questions about what states are doing,” she said.
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