Deborah Denno quoted in News All the Time about the Louisiana State Penitentiary’s effort to immorally obtain hydromorphone from a local hospital to execute Christopher Sepulvado, who was convicted in 1993 of killing his stepson.
“They’re being secretive because they know they couldn’t carry out executions otherwise,” said Fordham Law professor and death penalty expert Deborah Denno. “Look at the botches in 2014 alone.”
Denno said the Lake Charles hospital should have been more careful about providing drugs that could be used in an execution to a prison system. “It’s a slippery slope for a hospital to be the supplier,” Denno said. “They are enabling execution, no matter which way you slice it.”
The entire News All the Time article ran on August 10, 2014.