Deborah Denno comments to the Los Angeles Times on the lawsuit filed by a coalition of mainstream news media to contend that the public has a constitutional right to know where executioners get lethal injection drugs arguing that the increasing secrecy around lethal injection executions violates the 1st Amendment.
“Every time they reveal information, it’s not a good thing for them,” Deborah W. Denno, a professor at Fordham Law School and a death penalty expert, said of execution officials. “It reveals incompetence; they’re not knowledgeable about the procedure…. Departments of corrections have demonstrated to us over and over again that they need witnessing.”
Read the entire Los Angeles Times article.
