Deborah Denno in Chattanooga Times Free Press on how executing prisoners is getting more and more difficult, although most Americans still approve of the death penalty.
But death penalty opponents didn’t like this method, Fordham law professor Deborah Denno said. If the first drug didn’t work right, the inmate would be awake when he got the paralyzing drug. With an inmate awake but paralyzed, doctors would have no clue what was happening with the third, killing drug.
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