Deborah Denno quoted in a SF Gate story about how executions in California have been on hold since 2006 because of problems with lethal injections and a Southern California federal judge’s move to declare the state’s death penalty system unconstitutional.
“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.
Execution by firing squad would require legislation in states like California, where the only authorized methods are the gas chamber, which hasn’t been used since 1993, and lethal injections.
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.”
Read the entire SF Gate article.