The Furman v.Georgia decision separated the guilt and sentencing decisions into two separate trials.

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The Furman v. Georgia decision did not specifically separate the guilt and sentencing decisions into two separate trials; it declared the death penalty, as administered at the time, to be unconstitutional due to its arbitrary and discriminatory application, leading to reforms in how death penalty cases were handled, including the bifurcation of trials in later decisions.

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