Deborah Denno comments to the Tampa Tribune on how carrying out the death penalty is often the highest-profile function of state government, yet lethal injection is both the most open and most secret.
State prisons officials will “have every detail about what an inmate eats and drinks, if he had iced tea or orange soda,” said Deborah Denno, a professor of law at Fordham University in New York.
But the more information states provide about the drugs they use to execute the condemned, “the more trouble they get into,” she said.
“It’s just more material for litigation,” Denno said. “Is the drug impure? Was it compounded correctly? We can’t find these things out.”
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