Deborah Denno quoted in a Los Angeles Times story about an official report in which it was found that convicted murderer, Joseph Wood III who died in a botched execution in Arizona was injected with 15 separate doses of a drug combination because the initial drug protocol of one dose didn’t seem to be enough to kill him.
“I thought it was shocking,” said Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham Law School and a death penalty expert, of the news that Wood received 15 doses.
“2014 has been a perversely banner year in botched executions,” Denno said Saturday. “It’s very disturbing. This is not a concocted problem by any means. This is a national concern right now.”
She noted that U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. had said Thursday on PBS that although there is no legal requirement to disclose what drugs are used in executions, “transparency would be a good thing.”
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