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 soas practiced b

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In Furman v. Georgia (1972), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty, as administered at that time, was capricious and arbitrary, which violated the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process. This decision led to a temporary halt of the death penalty across the United States until states revised their death penalty statutes.