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Deborah W. Denno researches executions in the USA and is critical of new execution methods, which she sometimes considers to be more cruel than old methods.
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Failed execution of Christa Pike “The result is barbaric”
Deborah W. Denno researches executions in the USA. Here she says why she considers the new execution methods to be even more cruel than the old ones. And the Christa Pike case was no coincidence.
An interview by Markus Verbeet
October 9, 2026, 7:01 a.m

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