Deborah Denno comments to the BBC NewsMagazine on the triple-drug cocktail used by many states to kill death-row inmates and how it may not always provide a painless death.
“It’s impossible to fully understand what these drugs do to people,” says Deborah Denno, a professor of law at Fordham University in New York.
“They may be too sedated [by the first drug]to cry out, or in pain but paralysed, or locked in, by the second drug.”
Read the entire BBC NewsMagazine story.
