In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court in __________________ abolished the death penalty on the grounds that it constituted "cruel and unusual punishment."

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Furman v. Georgia (1972) is the case where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty, as administered at the time, constituted "cruel and unusual punishment" in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, effectively halting executions until states revised their laws.