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    You are at:Home»Deborah Denno»Outspoken Death-Row Inmate Calls Nevada’s Bluff

    Outspoken Death-Row Inmate Calls Nevada’s Bluff

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    By dduttachakraborty on July 20, 2018 Deborah Denno, Faculty, In the News

    Deborah Denno was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article about states using drugs or lethal injection as a form of capital punishment.

    The case could still have a profound influence, however, by forcing those states that have essentially held on to the death penalty in name only to make a choice: abolish the punishment, or find an acceptable means of carrying it out.

     

    The case “is going to have reverberating effects across any death-penalty state using drugs or lethal injection,” says Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor and death penalty expert.

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    But Dozier’s stance challenges the assumption that death would be the worst punishment, offering a paradoxical glimpse into a death-penalty system where a shrinking number of US counties are sending convicts to death row.

     

    “Most people think these inmates are fighting for their lives and the way to really get back at them is to kill them,” says Fordham’s Prof. Denno. “But here we have someone … who is rubbing that in people’s faces and saying, ‘Do you want me to suffer? Then let me live.’ ”

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