Deborah Denno quoted in the Tribune de Geneve (Switzerland) about the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 decision Baze vs. Rees, which found that lethal injection complies with the 8th Amendment to the Constitution, which outlaws “cruel and unusual punishment”, but since, barbiturates used to kill the condemned have changed after the refusal of pharmaceutical companies – especially in Europe – to provide their products for execution and how the Court must now re-examine the issue.
But “the Court always has the option to settle more widely on the constitutionality of lethal injection,” said Deborah Denno, expert from Fordham University School of Law. Pending the decision, several states have suspended all executions and other like Texas (south) use pentobarbital, a barbiturate he also gets an anonymous source.
“What the High Court to seize a method of execution for the second time in seven years, it’s really amazing,” she said.”Clearly, the Court sees that there are problems, and it does not look good for the death penalty” in general.
Read the entire Tribune de Geneve article.