Deborah Denno quoted in the Louisville Courier-Journal about Kentucky Justice Cabinet officials outlining a new protocol that would allow wardens to execute inmates with an intravenous solution of either sodium thiopental or pentobarbital, instead of the combination of sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride.
At least seven other states have switched to the one-drug method for lethal injections. Deborah Denno, who has studied execution methods from around the country, told the Associated Press that states now use a half-dozen ways to carry out executions. “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 said.
The entire Louisville Courier-Journal article ran on July 21, 2012.
