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14 Aug 2012, 8:13 am by Steve Hall
Earlier coverage of David Dow includes a recent TED Talk, his essay on this year's 40th anniversary of Furman v. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 9:17 am by Steve Hall
That was why the Supreme Court halted capital punishment 40 years ago in its Furman v. [read post]
31 Jul 2012, 11:44 pm by Jeff Gamso
  It's because what Potter Stewart said forty years ago in Furman remains true today. [read post]
28 Jun 2012, 4:58 am by Russ Bensing
  That was the most since capital punishment was reinstated by the Supreme Court’s 1976 decision in Furman v. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 2:27 pm by Adam Gillette
  Governor Malloy's statement points out that in the twelve years prior to Furman v. [read post]
11 Dec 2011, 4:05 am by SHG
When the Supreme Court held that the death penalty was unconstitutionally arbitrary in Furman v. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 1:25 pm by Steve Hall
Cruel and Unusual: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment is Michael Meltsner's gripping account of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's original campaign to abolish the death penalty, ending with the Supreme Court's 1972 ruling in Furman v. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 10:00 pm by GuestPost
The death penalty today is exactly the same menace that led the US Supreme Court to hold in Furman v Georgia that its use was far too arbitrary and prone to racist bias and thereby unconstitutional (5:4 decision on cruel and unusual punishment in breach of 8th & 14th Amendments. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 9:57 am by Steve Hall
And between the two solitudes, there is a vast middle; those who believe that there is a place for the death penalty, but only if it can be administered fairly and accurately, free from the sort of arbitrary and capricious decision-making that pushed the justices to do away with it in the first place in 1972 in Furman v. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 4:57 am by Ryan McKeen
If Ruth Bader Ginsburg has her way (and she likely won’t), it shall all be for naught: In response to a question about what she would like to accomplish in her remaining years on the court, the justice said she would like to revive the Supreme Court’s ruling in Furman v. [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 7:40 am by Nathan Koppel
” In response to a question about what she would like to accomplish in her remaining years on the court, the justice said she would like to revive the Supreme Court’s ruling in Furman v. [read post]