Deborah Denno comments to the Kansas City Star on the secrecy, along with a growing concern about the unregulated nature of such pharmacies, surrounding Missouri’s lethal injection drug, which could propel the state into a protracted legal fight before it can carry out its first execution since early 2011.
“There are a lot of serious problems with all of this,” said Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University in New York who has done extensive research on issues surrounding lethal injection across the country.In an article for the Georgetown Law Journal, Denno said that the “historically dismal safety standards and haphazard daily practices” of some compounding pharmacies “all but invite lethal injection challenges.”
“Compounding pharmacies are already under such scrutiny as it is, they don’t need any more negative attention,” Denno said. “And there is nothing more negative than being associated with executions in this country.”
The entire Kansas City Star story ran on November 10, 2013.