Deborah Denno comments to BBC News on how American states have found it harder to source drugs for lethal injections, and stand accused of using improvised and possibly painful methods, as well as buying drugs furtively from unregulated pharmacies.
Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham Law School and death penalty expert, says there is evidence that a substantial number of prison volunteers and people with questionable expertise have been used to carry out executions.
“If you are using drugs that have never been used to kill a human being and are by no means created for that purpose, and those drugs are being used by someone who is ill-trained and doesn’t know much about drugs and injections to begin with, then you’re creating a particularly high risk process,” she says.
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