In Furman v. Georgia (1972), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the death penalty had been applied in a cruel, arbitrary, and racist manner by the states.

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In Furman v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty, as it was then administered, was arbitrary and capricious, and therefore violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. This decision effectively halted executions in the United States until the death penalty procedures were reformed.

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