Deborah Denno comments to NPR on how the death penalty may never fade away entirely, but capital punishment is certainly less visible or actively pursued than it used to be.
“Even in places where the death penalty is regularly used, it’s slowing down and in some cases it’s stopped altogether, so the public is not engaged with it,” says Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University. “For the most part, I see abolitionists being more successful than not.”
“Litigation on this front remains immensely successful, so it becomes a de facto moratorium,” says Denno, the Fordham law professor.
Read the entire NPR story.
