Furman v Georgia

• Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (per curiam) (1972)

U.S. Supreme Court FURMAN v. GEORGIA, 408 U.S. 238 (1972) 408 U.S. 238 FURMAN v. GEORGIA CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA No. 69-5003....

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• The Common-Law Rule of Consistency in Modern Capital Sentencing

The common-law rule of consistency prevented a defendant's conviction upon the acquittal of all confederates for a crime requiring multiple parties. Though most federal circuit courts of appeal pronounced the rule dead after a series of Supreme Court decisions ending in United States v. Powell, the Sixth Circuit recently invoked the rule in Getsy v. Mitchell to reverse a death sentence returned against a hired murderer-a decision subsequently reversed on en banc review. This Note highlights the ways in which the common-law rule, as well as variations of the type presented in Getsy, are ill-suited to today's sentencing system-problems that result chiefly from the rule's ability to operate on partially inconsistent verdicts. This Note concludes with a proposal for a "clear-inconsistency r...

... desirable-under the Supreme Court's post- Furman v. Georgia 17 capital-sentencing jurisprudence. ....

• Iowa Law Review
• Nbr. 93-1, November 2007

• Furman v. Georgia 1972

Appellant: William Henry Furman Appellee: State of Georgia Appellant's Claim: That the Georgia death penalty was cruel an...

• Supreme Court Drama: Cases That Changed America
• Volume 2: Criminal Justice and Family Law
• Capital Punishment

• To Be Equal; Elaine Jones: Energized by Adversity

What do I mean by "Blacks like her?" I mean a Black baby boomer who as a youngster in the 1960s took great advantage of the expansion of opportunity across the color line the Civil Rights Movement had forged and who ever since has used her talents to fight for social justice and push open the doors of opportunity wider and wider. Some of her cohorts have waged that fight quietly behind the scenes. [Elaine R. Jones] chose a front-line civil rights organization whose work from the 1930s onward not only forged the trails that led to the Supreme Court's landmark Brown decision but also helped jump-start the mass action Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and has continued cutting new paths for equality of opportunity to blossom. Within two years of joining the Legal Defense Fund, ...

... record in a landmark Supreme Court case, Furman v. Georgia, that abolished the death penalty in 37...

• New Pittsburgh Courier; City Edition
• July 30, 2009

• Furman v. Georgia

In Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 92 S. Ct. 2726, 33 L. Ed. 2d 346 (1972), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down three death se...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Fri–Jam

• Eighth Amendment: Further Guarantees In Criminal Cases

...The Court's 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia , finding constitutional deficiencies ...

• Constitution of the United States (Annotated)

• Capital Punishment Cases of 1972 Furman v. Georgia Jackson v. Georgia Branch v. Texas 408 U.S. 238 (1972)

The Eighth Amendment clearly and expressly forbids the infliction of CRUEL AND UNUSUAL ...

• Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
• AB-CI

• Most Americans Favor Death Penalty, but Numbers Are Falling

The majority of Americans - 61 percent - favor the death penalty, according to a new Gallup poll. But that percentage is down from past years. In fact, the percentage is the lowest since 1972, the year the Supreme Court voided all existing state death penalty laws in Furman v. Georgia.

• Lawyers USA
• October 21, 2011

• Executing those who do not kill: a categorical approach to proportional sentencing.

...Gregg v. Georgia: The Court's First Application of the Two-Part Pro... unconstitutional four years earlier in Furman v. Georgia. (33) In assessing the proportionality ...

• American Criminal Law Review
• Vol. 48 Nbr. 3, June 2011

• Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976)

...That statute, as amended following Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (where this Court held t...

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