Deborah Denno comments to the Washington Post on the execution of Dennis McGuire who was the first U.S. inmate to be executed using a new combination of drugs, midazolam and hydromorphone, which his attorneys had called an untested and inhumane method of capital punishment.
Legal expert Deborah Denno compared the states’ process of selecting an execution method to trying to figure out what to make for dinner. “It’s like going to your kitchen cupboard trying to look for something to prepare for your next meal and just looking for anything,” she said.
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