Furman v. Georgia

Written By JWMF

 

Furman v. Georgia, became one of the most monumental cases in American legal history. The 1972 decision, overturned every state death penalty statute in the country and spared the lives of nearly six hundred people who were sentenced to die.

Read more about the decision and William Furman’s story here  

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