Deborah Denno comments to the Huffington Post about Georgia’s decision to switch to single-drug executions from a three-drug combination, following the lead of several other states.
Pentobarbital is most commonly used to euthanize animals and treat seizures. It wasn’t created to kill people and still is relatively untested for use on humans, said Fordham University law professor Deborah Denno.
“The whole reason lethal injection was created was to have a humane method of executing people,” she said. “Drug selection in the late 1970s had that goal in mind. Now, drugs are chosen out of convenience because they’re the only thing available, not because they’re the humane choice.”
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