Deborah Denno was quoted in a Washington Post article about the execution of Ricky Gray, which took more than 30 minutes to complete and was not wholly visible to witnesses, including his attorneys.
Deborah Denno, a lawyer at Fordham University who has monitored lethal injection executions since 1982, said it was hard to compare Gray’s death to others because no outside witnesses could see what was happening.
“Nobody could see it,” Denno said. “So it’s hard to know whether it was a botched execution. It was certainly a problematic execution, because it took so long.”
