Fordham Law School Professor Deborah Denno, a leading death penalty expert, was recently mentioned in The Marshall Project.
Finally I turned to Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University, who is a nationally-recognized expert on the death penalty — and especially the means of executions. Unlike Moran or Christianson, Denno is active today in the roiling political and legal debate over the death penalty and lethal injection, and she chose as her momentous story about the electric chair in America the grim story of Leo Jones, a death row inmate in Florida in June 1997. At the time, Florida had just botched the execution of an inmate named Pedro Medina, whose head burst into flames when the state killed him in March 1997 and Jones’ trial judge wanted to evaluate whether the use of the state’s electric chair, also called “Old Sparky,” was “cruel and unusual.”
Read The Marshall Project‘s entire article here.