Deborah Denno comments in the San Jose Mercury News about California’s six-year moratorium on executions, and a judge’s order that the state create new lethal injection procedures, which all but ensures San Quentin’s death chamber will remain dormant.
Fordham University law professor Deborah Denno, a death penalty foe and lethal-injection expert, said California is “sticking so rigidly to a tried but untrue formula” to end its legal battles.
“California appears to be out of the loop with respect to what other lethal-injection states are doing,” she added.
Read the entire San Jose Mercury News story.