Deborah Denno comments to NPR on how Missouri’s Department of Corrections decided to take matters into its own hands by using a different drug and adding a compounding pharmacy to its “execution team.
“You don’t have a lot of manufacturers of the drugs,” says Deborah Denno, an expert on lethal injections at Fordham Law School. “You have a situation where the companies that were supplying the drugs, when they are revealed and realize their drugs are going to be used for executions, they don’t want to have anything to do with it.”
“This is a country that wants the death penalty,” Denno says, “but there’s enormous stigma.”
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