DEATH PENALTY DEBATE IN AMERICA A botched execution in the U.S. State of Oklahoma has sparked renewed debate over the death penalty in the United States.  Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and Jon Malcolm, Director, and Senior Legal fellow in the Edwin Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation spar over the methods and merits of the death penalty with host Carol Castiel.