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This Day in Legal History: Furman v. Georgia
On June 29, 1972, in a narrow 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court delivered what many thought was a death blow to capital punishment in America. In Furman v. Georgia, the Court held that the death penalty, as it was then being administered, violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment because it was imposed arbitrarily and inconsistently.
The case involved William Henry Furman, a man convicted of murder in Georgia. Furman was sentenced to death. But the critical issue wasn’t whether Furman committed the crime—it was…
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