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   Furman v. Georgia

   William Henry Furman v. State of Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972) was a United States Supreme Court decision that ruled on the requirement for a degree of consistency in the application of the death penalty.
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   List of exonerated death row inmates

   This list contains names of people who were found guilty of capital crimes and placed on death row who were later found to be wrongly convicted. ... (Later that year, the U.S. Supreme Court in Furman v. Georgia 408 U.S. 238 (1972) would also find the death penalty unconstitutional).
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   Anthony G. Amsterdam

   Anthony G. Amsterdam (born 1935) is an American lawyer and Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. Working with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Amsterdam argued and won Furman v. Georgia in 1972, in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on the requirement for a degree of consistency in the application of the death penalty.
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   Gregg v. Georgia

   Gregg v. Georgia, Proffitt v. Florida, Jurek v. Texas, Woodson v. North Carolina, and Roberts v. Louisiana, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), reaffirmed the United States Supreme Court's acceptance of the use of the death penalty in the United States, upholding, in particular, the death sentence imposed on Troy Leon Gregg. ... The decision essentially overturned the de facto moratorium on the death penalty imposed by the Court in its 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia 408 U.S. 238 (1972).
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   James French (murderer)

   James D. French (circa 1936 – 10 August 1966) was an American criminal who was the last person executed under Oklahoma's death penalty laws prior to Furman v. Georgia. He was the only prisoner executed in the United States that year.
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   David Oshinsky

   David M. Oshinsky (born 1944) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian; he currently holds the Jack S. Blanton chair in history at the University of Texas at Austin and is a distinguished scholar in residence at New York University. ... Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America.
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   List of court cases involving the American Civil Liberties Union

   This is a list of cases that have involved the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to some degree. ... Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972) - Amicus curiae for William Furman, Lucious Jackson and Elmer Branch
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   Cincinnati Strangler

   The Cincinnati Strangler was the name given to a serial killer who raped, then strangled seven mostly elderly women in Cincinnati, Ohio between 1965 and 1966. ... Originally sentenced to death, Laskey's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment when the Supreme Court invalidated the death penalty in Furman v. Georgia.
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   Hoyt Franklin Clines

   Hoyt Franklin Clines (c. 1957 – August 3, 1994) was executed at the age of 37 for the March 25, 1981 murder of Don Lehman. ... Clines was the 7th person executed by the state of Arkansas since Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), after new capital punishment laws were passed in Arkansas and that came into force on March 23, 1973.
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    1972

    1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... June 29 – Furman v. Georgia: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the death penalty is unconstitutional.

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• Cincinnati Strangler,
• Hoyt Franklin Clines,
• 1972

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