Deborah Denno comments to the Independent (UK) on how a severe shortage of lethal injection drugs, and the horribly botched execution of a convicted murderer in Oklahoma, have brought the debate over the death penalty in the US back to the fore, once again.
Professor Deborah Denno, an expert on execution methods at the Fordham University Law School in New York, said: “There is a contingent that believes we will eventually find a perfect method of execution … [but]in a lot of cases, it’s nothing to do with the drugs. It’s to do with the executioners’ incompetence.”
Read the entire Independent (UK) article.