Deborah Denno comments to the Death Penalty Information Center, on her article in describing how the controversy surrounding lethal injections has greatly intensified since the Supreme Court’s ruling on the subject in 2008 (Baze v. Rees). Deborah Denno,
As a result, “[T]this continuous tinkering often affects already troubled aspects of states’ lethal injection procedures, such as the paltry qualifications of executioners, the absence of medical experts, and the failure to account for difficulties injecting inmates whose drug-using histories diminish the availability of usable veins.”
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