• Wikisource has original text related to this article: Furman v. Georgia Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), was a landmark criminal case in which...
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  • on the death penalty imposed by the Court in its 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia (1972). Justice Brennan's dissent famously argued that "The calculated...
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  • William Henry Furman (born 1942) is an American convicted felon who was the central figure in Furman v. Georgia (1972), the case in which the United States...
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    staff includes about 1,000 officers and supervisors. In the post-Furman v. Georgia period and prior to the 2007 repeal of the death penalty, it housed...
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  • death penalty in 1972 when the United States Supreme Court ruled in Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972) that "unitary trial" procedure, in which the...
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    federal death penalty. In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Furman v. Georgia declared existing capital punishment statutes unconstitutional, abolishing...
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  • These new statutes avoided the problems under the 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia, which had resulted in earlier death penalty statutes being deemed...
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  • juveniles in the United States was first applied in 1642. Before the 1972 Furman v. Georgia ruling that instituted a death penalty moratorium nationwide, there...
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    last person executed under Oklahoma's death penalty laws prior to Furman v. Georgia, which suspended capital punishment in the United States from 1972...
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  • for Alan T. Furman Furman v. Georgia, a United States Supreme Court decision that temporarily abolished capital punishment in the U.S. Furman Center for...
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    carries out executions. As a result of the Supreme Court opinion in Furman v. Georgia in 1972, the federal death penalty was suspended from law until its...
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    In 1972, this was commuted to a life sentence in the aftermath of Furman v. Georgia. He is incarcerated at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near...
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  • com/geo/executions5.html.) Capital punishment in Georgia (U.S. state) Capital punishment in the United States Furman v. Georgia, the 1972 United States Supreme Court...
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    Court of the United States struck down capital punishment statutes in Furman v. Georgia, reducing all pending death sentences to life imprisonment at the...
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    the United States Supreme Court suspended the death penalty under Furman v. Georgia. Duncan was convicted of hiring 24-year-old Augustine Baldonado and...
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  • crimes but avoided execution after the 1972 U.S. Supreme Court ruling Furman v. Georgia. He was resentenced to life and was paroled in 1989. Between October...
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    interim, the U.S. Supreme Court in Furman v. Georgia imposed a nationwide moratorium on capital punishment. Furman, along with continued challenges at...
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    Supreme Court was the case of Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972). The Supreme Court overturned the death sentences of Furman for murder, as well as two...
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    following Furman v. Georgia, executions were resumed following new capital-punishment laws passed by the State of Texas (and upheld in Gregg v. Georgia, which...
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  • Court briefly abolished capital punishment with its 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia. The State Electrician was contracted by the state at an unchanged...
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  • Rector was the third person executed by the state of Arkansas since Furman v. Georgia, after new capital punishment laws were passed in Arkansas, which...
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    v. Casey but also filed a separate opinion, warning that Roe was in jeopardy. He wrote dissenting opinions in notable cases such as Furman v. Georgia...
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  • were on appeal, culminating in the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Furman v. Georgia in 1972, invalidating all existing death penalty statutes as written...
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    to life without parole after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Furman v. Georgia, which invalidated death penalty convictions in certain circumstances...
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  • legal penalty in the U.S. state of Georgia. Georgia reintroduced the death penalty in 1973 after Furman v. Georgia ruled all states' death penalty statutes...
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    noteworthy for being the last person executed in the state before the 1972 Furman v. Georgia decision by the United States Supreme Court led to a nationwide death...
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  • United States before the moratorium on the death penalty following Furman v. Georgia, as well as the last person put to death in the state of Iowa. While...
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    a moratorium of more than four years initiated by the decision in Furman v. Georgia. In April 1976, Gilmore, aged 35, was released from prison after serving...
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    part of contract murders. Unable to be sentenced to death due to Furman v. Georgia, Biehler was instead given four consecutive life terms, which he served...
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    committed in 1965, but that death sentence was overturned following Furman v. Georgia. He was resentenced to life in prison and then paroled in 1978, committing...
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