Deborah Denno quoted in an Independent (UK) article on how Georgia has become the first state to recommence executing death row inmates since a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma in April fanned the flames of the death penalty debate in the US.
“Every time there’s a problem with an execution, it’s another question mark against the process,” said Professor Deborah Denno, an expert on execution methods at the Fordham University Law School in New York. The death penalty, Denno went on, “has taken a real hit in credibility among departments of corrections as a result of the Clayton Lockett execution. There’s going to be a lot of scrutiny on every execution that proceeds from now on.”
Read the entire Independent (UK) article.