THE 1970S 1969 1979
SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE
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Muller v. Oregon
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Furman v. Georgia
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Lochner v. New York
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U.S. v. Butler
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Detailed explanation-1: -Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972) The death penalty is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment when it is imposed in an arbitrary and capricious manner that leads to discriminatory results.
Detailed explanation-2: -Furman v. Georgia 408 U.S. 238: Court ruled that the death penalty, as applied, was an arbitrary punishment and thus unconstitutional under the 8th and 14th Amendments.
Detailed explanation-3: -Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if juries were given standards to guide them in their sentencing deliberations. The decision in Furman v. Georgia ultimately led many states to abolish the death penalty altogether.
Detailed explanation-4: -The dissenters argued that the Court was straying into an area properly delegated to the judgment of state legislatures. The private opinions of justices about the morality of capital punishment, they opined, should not be presented as public policy in a court of law.