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The Death Penalty and the Supreme Court

The United States still uses capital punishment long after many other countries have banned its use. Should it?

Forty-five years ago, in Furman v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional because it was administered arbitrarily. Justice Potter Stewart (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.famously wrote that the death penalty was “cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.”

As a result, many states rewrote their death-penalty statutes in an attempt to narrow the punishment to the