At the Supreme Court, a Lethal Injection Drug on Trial

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Deborah Denno quoted in U.S. News and World Report about the U.S. Supreme Court’s consideration of the methods states use to execute criminals in Glossip v. Gross, as well as the larger challenges correctional departments are having in obtaining lethal injection drugs in light of a global boycott and increasing public scrutiny.

According to Deborah Denno, a Fordham University School of Law professor who studies lethal injection litigation, courts are using the Baze decision less and less to navigate new challenges to procedures.

“By 2011, states aren’t citing Baze nearly as much because it’s really not dealing with the protocols,” she says.

Read the entire U.S. News and World Report article.

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