Deborah Denno quoted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to order the Missouri Department of Corrections to postpone killing Russell Bucklew, whose lawyers had argued that he was at risk of an agonizing death because of a rare vascular condition.
“I think it’s pretty clear that if Bucklew’s had been botched, we wouldn’t see another execution for a very long time, if ever,” said Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University in New York, who studies the death penalty. “Even the more hard-core pro-death penalty people would have to say, ‘enough.’”
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