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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.
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.
Furman v. Georgia is a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment in death penalty cases. In this case, petitioner William Henry Furman was convicted of murder in Georgia; petitioner Lucious Jackson was convicted of rape in Georgia, and petitioner Hamilton Branch was convicted of rape in Texas.
Furman v. Georgia: The death penalty is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment when it is imposed in an arbitrary and capricious manner that leads to discriminatory results.
13 Δεκ 2019 · 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.
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.
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.
