Deborah Denno comments to the Globe and Mail on the decision by pharmaceutical firms to stop selling barbiturates for use in lethal injections and the ways in which it has created a chaotic situation where U.S. correctional authorities are pushing ahead by adopting new drug protocols, hoarding existing stockpiles or finding non-industrial suppliers.
In the past five years in the United States, there have been more changes in lethal-injection protocols than there have been in the past three decades, according to an analysis of over 300 recent cases by Fordham University law professor Deborah Denno.
“They’re doing everything they can to perpetuate this process. At the same time they have their backs against the wall because the drugs they have been using in the past are no longer available,” Prof. Denno told the Globe and Mail earlier this year.
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