Deborah Denno quoted in a US News article on the three executions since a botched Oklahoma execution in April, and the secrecy policies regarding the drugs being used in those three states in the face of a drug shortage crisis.
According to Fordham Law School professor Deborah Denno, a leading legal expert on the death penalty, part of the challenge for lawyers defending death row inmates is that the secrecy laws are so broad in some places that even the court system is not privy to the practices and drugs being used in lethal injection.
“One of the big problems attorneys have so little information on which to go by on making any kind of challenge. They’re just not provided with sufficient enough information,” Denno says. She also points out that the problem of botched executions precedes the drug shortage issue.
Read the entire US News article.