In 1972, the Supreme Court instituted a moratorium on executions in the case of:

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Furman v. Georgia was a landmark Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the death penalty, as it was then being administered, was unconstitutional. The Court found that the death penalty was being applied in a discriminatory and arbitrary manner, and that it violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

In 1972, the Supreme Court Instituted a Moratorium on Executions