Fentanyl Death Penalty: Inmate Executions May Use Deadly Opioid

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Deborah Denno was quoted in an International Business Times article about states trying to find new drugs to execute death row inmates.

Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University told the Washington Post that new drug cocktails effects are often a mystery.

“We’re in a new era,” said Denno. “States have now gone through all the drugs closest to the original ones for lethal injection. And the more they experiment, the more they’re forced to use new drugs that we know less about in terms of how they might work in an execution.”

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