Deborah Denno quoted in International Business Times on how order to solve the problem of a shortage in the supply of drugs needed to execute prisoners on death row, Virginia officials are to vote on bringing back the electric chair, the archaic method that went into decline from the 1980s following a series of botched executions.
Commenting on the issue, law professor Deborah W Denno said a return to electrocution is not a good option: “If electrocution was such a humane method of execution, they would never have switched to lethal injection. No state would have.”
Read the entire International Business Times story.