Entries by Fatime Niane

In a February 2026 arti­cle pub­lished in the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Professor Deborah Denno charts how exe­cu­tion meth­ods in the United States​“have become cru­el­er” over the past fifty years. Her arti­cle details exe­cu­tion pro­ce­dures adopt­ed across death penal­ty states from 1977 to 2025, ana­lyz­ing their soci­etal and cul­tur­al under­pin­nings, and expos­ing their​“flaws, unsci­en­tif­ic ori­gins, and reliance on unqualified executioners.” > ​“Boyd asks for the…

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