In________ , the U.S. Supreme Court did not rule that the death penalty inherently violated the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishment or the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process, only that it did so as practiced by the states.

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In Furman v. Georgia (1972), the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty, as administered at the time, was arbitrary and capricious, thus violating the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. However, it did not rule that the death penalty itself was unconstitutional.