Deborah Denno talks to Yahoo Health about the Supreme Court’s ruling that the use of the controversial drug midazolam in lethal injection does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment and, thus, can be continued to be used when enacting the death penalty.
“Glossip v. Gross is a narrow 5-4 opinion that pertains to one state (Oklahoma) and the use of one drug within that state (midazolam), hence the broader repercussions of the holding against the three death row inmates seeking to ban midazolam are not entirely clear especially in light of the immediate chaos that stemmed from Baze eight years ago,” says Denno.
“Given the amount of research that petitioners provided about the dangerous effects of midazolam and the quality of the experts offered,” notes Denno, “it is inexcusable that the Court has enabled for decades a system of execution that has only become more reckless and egregious with each passing year.”
Read the entire Yahoo Health article here.