Nebraskas use of a never-tried protocol with a never-tried drug such as fentanyl in combination with a highly troublesome paralytic was reckless and irresponsible, Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University and an expert on methods of execution, told Salon. The execution was an exp
Date: Aug 15, 2018
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Nebraska to try risky 4-drug series in 1st lethal injection
"When states start experimenting with a new drug combination, it heightens the likelihood there's going to be some kind of error," said Deborah Denno, a law professor and lethal injection expert at Fordham University in New York.
Date: Aug 07, 2018
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'We've Never Seen Anything Like This': Why Arkansas Is Executing 7 People in 11 Days
last one occurring in 2000. Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor who studies lethal injection, says that carrying out more than one execution already heightens the risk that something could go wrong let alone seven in a week and a half with an often-criticized lethal injection drug. "
Date: Apr 14, 2017
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Vegas police use mannequin as bait to catch suspect in hammer killings of homeless
Laws in most states take into account what a defendant is thinking at the time of a crime, said Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor who authored a recent article about defendants and criminal intent.
Date: Mar 07, 2017
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Virginia's governor vetoes electric chair bill. What does it mean for death row?
"I find that unacceptable," Deborah Denno, the Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law at Fordham University in New York,told the Monitorat the time."First of all there's no precedent that because the drugs didn't make it into his system that that would be the basis for deciding that this wasn't an a
Date: Apr 11, 2016
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Death and Medicine: Why Lethal Injection Is Getting Harder
The people most knowledgeable about the process of lethal injection doctors, particularly anesthesiologists are often reluctant to impart their insights and skills," wrote Deborah Denno, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law, in a 2007 paper on medicine and the death penalty.
Date: Jun 30, 2015
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Could the Supreme Court restrict the use of lethal injection?
"The drug protocol the court validated in 2008 was no longer available," explained Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University who specializes in capital punishment. As a result, "there's been an explosion of different kinds of protocols that aren't similar to what the court upheld in 2008.
Firing squad is the only execution method for which people are trained, says Fordham University law professor Deborah Denno, who studies lethal injection and other execution methods. Its the most certain, the most expert way of executing and from all we know it would be the quickest.