Three people were convicted of murder and rape and were sentenced to death in Georgia and Texas. The Supreme Court reviewed the cases to see if the death sentence was cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Furman v. Georgia (1972)
Supreme Court of the United States
408 U.S. 238, 33 L. Ed. 2d 346, 92 S. Ct. 2726, SCDB 1971-170, 1972 U.S. LEXIS 169

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