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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.
States pressured to end death penalty after ‘horrifying’ execution in Ohio http://t.co/o8jP1rnKjm
— Al Jazeera America (@ajam) January 20, 2014
After a Prolonged Execution in Ohio, Questions Over ‘Cruel and Unusual’ http://t.co/wI3CiNM2MA
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 18, 2014
Death by firing squad? States weigh execution options as lethal drugs run out http://t.co/eXA4uOEkEY via @foxnewspolitics
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 21, 2014
Ohio executes man using untried, untested injection. http://t.co/wHAxOFzzvW < Part of @Edpilkington‘s essential reporting on death penalty
— Paul Lewis (@PaulLewis) January 16, 2014
Inmate’s controversial execution leaves unclear future for the death penalty http://t.co/pqdrpfIX7S
— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) January 19, 2014
National support for death penalty at 40-year low http://t.co/2UWmXoU87h
— Deseret News (@deseretnews) January 6, 2014
“It is clear the world needs to pay close attention to how people in the US are executed.” http://t.co/3qOM5SOD8t #Ohio #deathpenalty
— AmnestyInternational (@amnesty) January 17, 2014
Missouri Bill Would Add ‘Firing Squad’ As Death Penalty Option http://t.co/fpYdMWCBL5
— NPR News (@nprnews) January 18, 2014
Prisons Are Now Using Scary, Untested Drugs to Execute Death Row Inmates via @tnr http://t.co/rOlZuuQrkD #barbaric
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture) January 15, 2014
Capital punishment in 2012. China has more executions than the rest of the world put together http://t.co/vYfpyqxbcC pic.twitter.com/zlnhHbyNz2
— Amazing Data (@DataIsAmazing) January 13, 2014
Death penalty dying out in America (except in FL and TX). Goodbye racial bias, execution of innocents, barbarism. http://t.co/fjKw8nBJmX
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) January 7, 2014
In 2013, Death Penalty Rarely Doled Out To Those Whose Crimes Include Minority Victims http://t.co/Ambb7THpHn
— ThinkProgressJustice (@TPJustice) January 2, 2014
On lethal injection: Making executions tidier does not make the dead any less dead http://t.co/oylmA6SVB0
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 21, 2014
Horrible death for killer of pregnant woman. He had evaded the death penalty for more than 2 decades. http://t.co/MklWcQagN2
— Jim Clancy (@clancycnn) January 17, 2014
Unfortunately, #Ohio tends to be a trailblazer in devising new ways to execute people: https://t.co/K0opmdSfl3 End the #deathpenalty!
— ACLU National (@ACLU) January 16, 2014