Deborah Denno‘s comments appear in a Chicago Tribune editorial on the botched lethal injection of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma.
“We started with hangings, then moved to electrocution in 1890 and to lethal gas in 1921, with the firing squad always around on the outskirts,” Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University, told The New York Times. “The move to lethal injection in 1977 was an effort to combat all the ills associated with other methods. Nevertheless, we’ve seen botch after botch.”
Read the entire Chicago Tribune editorial.