Deborah W. Denno comments to Time magazine on how lethal injection was supposed to be quick, painless, and humane — and why it is now so troubling.
“Anytime you have a lethal injection that’s gone awry,” says Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor who has been studying lethal injection for 20 years, “it’s one more knot in the cord, one more indication that this is an incredibly troublesome procedure.”
“There’s never been anything like this,” says Fordham’s Denno. “States have gone haywire in their efforts to perpetuate executions at any cost.”
Of the 3,088 inmates on death row last year, only 39 were put to death. Says Denno: “They’re not executing enough people to get good at it.”
The entire Time magazine article ran on March 26, 2014.