Fordham Law School Professor Deborah Denno, a leading expert on the death penalty, spoke to The Costarican Times about how long executions generally last.
Denno, the Fordham professor, says a 1938 execution in which doctors attached a monitor to the inmate showed that the heart’s electrical activity stopped within 30 seconds, with brain death following soon after.
She said that historically, there are accounts of people slowly bleeding to death when the bullets didn’t hit the heart but “those appear to be revenge killings” unlikely to happen in the modern age of executions.
Read The Costarican Times‘ entire article here.
