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Death Penalty: Case Studies: Supreme
Court Decisions
 Introduction
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The
Death Penalty in the U.S. this history includes information
on several key cases
Constitutionality
of the Death Penalty in America
The
Issue "Is the death penalty consistent with the Eighth
Amendment's prohibition against the imposition of cruel and unusual
punishments?"
The
U.S. Supreme Court and Capital Punishment Slideshow includes
information of Furman
v Georgia and also Gregg
v Georgia
Furman v. Georgia 1972
Furman versus Georgia was the case which brought the
death penalty to a halt in the United States by finding that most death
penalty laws were unconstitutional because they were cruel and unusual
punishment
Case
Summary (loads slowly)
Influencing
the Supreme Court: Is the Death Penalty Unconstitutional?
Webquest
Opinions
in the case supporting and dissenting opinions from Supreme
Court justices
Other
Supreme Court cases that cited Furman v. Georgia
25
Anniversary FURMAN v. GEORGIA [pdf format] an evaluation of
judicial practice in the years after the decision
Death
Penalty Is Cruel student essay
Gregg v. Georgia 1976
In which the court ruled that in some cases the death
penaltyis NOT cruel and unusual
Twenty-five
Years After Gregg v. Georgia from an anti-death penalty source
Paraphrasing
exercise: Gregg v Georgia good practice for researcher-writers
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