Deborah Denno quoted in Time magazine about Oklahoma’s new death penalty protocol, which requires more training for executioners; contingency plans if any problems arise; the reduction in the number of media witnesses from 12 to five; and four different lethal injection drug combination options, two of which still involve midazolam in a dosage that is five times larger than what was used in the botched execution of Clayton Lockett.
“I think states like Oklahoma are continuing to use midazolam because so far they can and they don’t know what else to do,” says Deborah Denno, a Fordham University professor who studies lethal injection.
Read the entire Time article.