Fordham Law School Professor Deborah Denno, a leading death penalty scholar, spoke to the Washington Post about the Supreme Court’s controversial Glossip v. Gross ruling allowing states to use the drug midazolam, which has been used in botched executions the past two years.
“This is a narrow decision involving one drug in one state,” said Deborah W. Denno, a law professor at Fordham University in New York, who has been critical of the lethal injection process. The ruling involves “a drug that’s used in a handful of states, and hasn’t been used all that much,” she said. “Is it going to increase? It’s unclear.”
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