In the case of ________,the U.S.Supreme Court held that the specific laws determining how the death penalty would be administered were unconstitutional.
A)Coker v.Georgia
B)Furman v.Georgia
C)In re Kemmler
D)Gregg v.Georgia

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Furman v. Georgia, a landmark Supreme Court case in 1972, ruled that the arbitrary and inconsistent application of the death penalty violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution. As a result, all death penalty statutes in the U.S. were invalidated until states could come up with new laws that were not arbitrary and discriminatory.

In the Case of ________,The U