Deborah Denno comments to The Vindicator on the execution of Dennis McGuire, one of the longest executions since Ohio resumed capital punishment in 1999. Nearly 25 minutes passed between the time the lethal drugs began flowing and McGuire was pronounced dead at 10:53 a.m.
After McGuire was put to death, Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham University School of Law who has studied executions nationally, said accounts she has read indicate a “botched” execution.
“People are saying he was coughing and having reactions,” she said. “That shouldn’t be happening with a lethal injection. … When the inmate does seemingly suffer or have a problem, then [the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction is]incompetent. They’re not doing their job right.”
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