Deborah Denno comments to the New Republic on the little oversight of the state’s selection of the individuals tasked with inserting the IV in lethal injection, whether they are physicians or paramedics — the stage where, in the past, many executions have gone wrong.
In 2009, an EMT in Ohio jabbed Rommell Broom with a needle 18 times trying to establish access. His execution was eventually postponed: He walked out of the death chamber alive.
At that time, Deborah Denno, a professor of law at Fordham University, told me Broom’s execution was “the worst botched execution that has happened in the history of this country.”
Read the entire New Republic article.