Deborah Denno quoted in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on a new law that shields from public view the identities of those who make and supply lethal-injection drugs to prison officials, and the legal challenge to the secrecy law, which took effect last year, that has ground executions in Georgia to a halt.
Fordham University law professor Deborah Denno said states have understandably made it a point to shield the identities of those carrying out executions in the death chambers out of concern they could be threatened or attacked.
“But there have been countless botched executions with lethal injections over the years,” said Denno, who has studied the issue for two decades. “That makes it all the more troubling they’d have this new level of secrecy.”
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