Deborah Denno quoted in a Smithsonian Magazine story about Joseph Wood’s botched execution and how it highlights a growing concern about the death penalty and the drugs used to carry it out.
Lawyers argue that such lengthy executions should be considered “cruel and unusual punishment.” As Deborah Denno, professor of criminal law and criminal procedure at Fordham Law School, told the Associated Press, as more and more of these botched executions hit the news, “It will reach a point where the public will question the value of these execution procedures generally, and perhaps the death penalty itself.”
Read the entire Smithsonian Magazine article.