Supreme Court Halts Death Penalty: Cruel and Unusual
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down existing death penalty statutes across the nation, ruling that their arbitrary application violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. This decision immediately halted all executions in the United States for four years, requiring states to rewrite their laws with specific guidelines before capital punishment could resume.
June 29, 1972
54 years ago
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