Deborah Denno comments to MSNBC.com about a Florida state lawmaker who wants to use firing squads or the electric chair for those on death row.
Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham University law school and an expert on methods of execution, said Drake’s idea was a “good suggestion.”
She told msnbc.com in a telephone interview that a firing squad execution was the “most humane” and “most dignified” method of those that can be used in the U.S.
Denno said this was probably followed by hanging, with lethal injections and the electric chair tied for third and lethal gas as the least humane method.
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