Deborah Denno quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle article about how Arizona’s brutal execution of Joseph Wood has prompted the West Coast’s top-ranking federal judge, a supporter of capital punishment, to call for the return of firing squads.
“It’s never been worse than now … with the drug shortage, the experimentation, states using whatever drugs they can get their hands on,” said Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University and a longtime researcher and commentator on the death penalty.
Fordham’s Denno said it’s worth considering. Execution by firing squad is “humane and dignified,” she said, and “it’s the honest way to do things.”
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