Professor Deborah Denno warns of the unreliability of lethal injection as a method of execution in an article on a recent bill passed in Idaho’s state senate to restore firing squads, a method banned by the state back in 2009.
“Public perception has always been firing squads’ Achilles heel. It has associations with the Wild West and major wars — people associate guns with a lot of bad things,” Denno said. “Lethal injection, outside the death penalty, is generally seen as positive because people associate it with just going to sleep.”
Read “As Lethal Injection Faces Hurdles, Idaho Turns Back to Firing Squads” in The Washington Post.