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Prof Denno does it again on lethal injection

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via Larry Solum: Deborah W. Denno (Fordham University School of Law) has posted The Future of Execution Methods (THE FUTURE OF AMERICA’S DEATH PENALTY: AN AGENDA FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT RESEARCH, Charles S. Lanier, William J. Bowers & James R. Acker, eds., pp. 483-497, Carolina Academic Press, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Lethal injection, the most common method of execution in the United States, is at a troubling impasse. Inmates continue to challenge the method on the grounds that it is an inhumane and unconstitutional method of execution, and states continue to cling to scientifically uninformed procedures in an effort to ensure the death penalty?s survival generally. In a landmark 2006 ruling, however, federal district court judge Jeremy Fogel stated that lethal injection could be ?fixed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 21, 2009 (boomark / email).