Deborah Denno comments to the Associated Press on Kentucky’s switch to a single drug to carry out the execution of condemned inmates under a new set of regulations, becoming the latest state to drop a three-drug mixture for lethal injections.
Kentucky’s new plan makes a half-dozen ways executions may be carried out, said Fordham law professor Deborah Denno, who has studied execution methods from around the country.
“States are so panic-stricken about not being able to execute, they’re creating this Frankenstein-type of procedure of killing at all cost, whatever it takes,” Denno told The Associated Press.
The story appeared in the Associated Press on July 20, 2012.