Deborah Denno comments to Reuters on the controversy at home and abroad over the execution of Troy Davis, who was put to death in the United States late for the 1989 killing of a policeman.
“The Troy Davis case is going to bring a lot of doubt into people’s minds,” said Fordham University law professor Deborah Denno, an opponent of the death penalty.
“It gradually erodes the death penalty more and more … public opinion is changing,” she said.
This story ran on the Reuters News Service on September 22, 2011.
