Deborah Denno quoted in the New York Times about the Oklahoma Department of Corrections’ detailed account of the execution of Clayton Lockett as it reels from questions about its execution procedures and training of personnel as well as its secret sources of lethal drugs.
Legal experts on the death penalty said they were surprised, and even shocked, by several things revealed in the new letter. “I’ve never heard of a case of an inmate being Tasered before being executed,” said Deborah Denno, an expert on execution at Fordham Law School and a death penalty opponent.
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