Deborah Denno comments to Mother Jones magazine on how the ban on the sale of drugs for use in executions has made the components of the Supreme Court-approved three-drug cocktail that states traditionally used to kill inmates progressively harder to obtain, thus forcing states to use never-before-used combinations of drugs.
“We don’t know how these drugs are going to react because they’ve never been used to kill someone,” says Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor and an expert on lethal injections. “It’s like when you wonder what you’re going to be eating tonight and you go home and root through your refrigerator to see what’s there. That’s what these departments of corrections are doing with these drugs.”
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