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This R&D provides articles on the death penalty.  Questions on the death penalty typically arise in constitutional issues or domestic social rounds and extempers should be prepared to weigh in on the constitutionality of the practice.  The execution of Dennis McGuire in Ohio last week received attention because of Ohio testing out a new two drug method for lethal injection.  Observers of the execution say that McGuire suffered before dying, which has galvanized death penalty opponents to pressure states to abolish the practice.  The U.S. briefly had a moratorium on the death penalty between 1972-1976 and thirty-two states currently allow the practice.