Deborah Denno was quoted in an MSNBC article about Maine Governor Paul LePage’s endorsement of the guillotine as a method of execution. The author also refers to another governor who previously had proposed reviving another form of capital punishment.
When Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) last year raised the prospect of bringing back the electric chair when chemicals for lethal injections are unavailable, Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham University School of Law and a national expert on capital punishment, said something interesting: “[T]hey’re going backwards. They’re going back to using a method of execution that was basically rejected because it was so problematic. That’s never happened before.”
