Deborah Denno comments to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruling that if the inmates’ lawyers can’t point to a more humane execution than lethal injection — such as hanging or firing squad — they are not entitled to discover more about the pharmacy hired by Missouri to make the drugs for the injections.
Deborah Denno, a Fordham law professor and death penalty expert, said the ruling put the lawyers for condemned Missouri inmates in a Catch-22.
“If the attorneys can’t have more information on the method, and the court prohibits it, how can they ever show what the court is requiring of them?”
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