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  1. Summaries of Key Supreme Court Cases Related to the Death Penalty. Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510 (1968): Jurors must be willing to impose the death penalty in order to sit on a capital jury. Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972): The application of the death penalty is unconstitutional.

  2. 22 Μαρ 2017 · Case Summary of Furman v. Georgia: Furman was convicted and sentenced to the death penalty. Furman, along with defendants similarly situated, appealed the lower courts decisions, claiming that the death penalty violated the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution.

  3. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), was a landmark criminal case in which the United States Supreme Court decided that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

  4. 15 Αυγ 2022 · Georgia, a 1972 landmark Supreme Court decision that declared the death penalty unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment. The ruling effectively nullified all existing death sentences and halted all executions for a four-year period.

  5. Georgia (1972) was a landmark Supreme Court case in which a majority of justices ruled that existing death penalty schemes in states nationwide were arbitrary and inconsistent, violating the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

  6. Below is a selection of Supreme Court cases involving the death penalty and criminal sentencing, arranged from newest to oldest. Jones v. Mississippi (2021) A sentencer need not make a separate factual finding of permanent incorrigibility before sentencing a murderer under 18 to life without parole. Bucklew v. Precythe (2019)

  7. Georgia has employed capital punishment since colonial times, with executions recorded at least as early as 1735. Crimes punishable by capital punishment in Georgia have historically included murder, robbery, rape, horse stealing, and aiding a runaway slave.

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