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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court_case
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gptkbp:citation
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gptkb:405_U.S._727
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gptkbp:concurringOpinionBy
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gptkb:Byron_White
gptkb:Thurgood_Marshall
gptkb:William_J._Brennan_Jr.
gptkb:William_O._Douglas
gptkb:Potter_Stewart
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gptkbp:country
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gptkb:United_States
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gptkbp:date
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June 29, 1972
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gptkbp:decidedBy
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gptkb:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
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gptkbp:dissentingOpinionBy
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gptkb:William_Rehnquist
gptkb:Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.
gptkb:Warren_E._Burger
gptkb:Harry_Blackmun
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gptkbp:docketNumber
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69-5003
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gptkbp:effect
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temporarily halted capital punishment in the United States
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gptkbp:heldBy
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The imposition and carrying out of the death penalty in these cases constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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405 U.S. 727
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gptkbp:majorityOpinionBy
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per curiam
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gptkbp:officialName
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gptkb:Furman_v._Georgia
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gptkbp:petitioner
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gptkb:William_Henry_Furman
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gptkbp:response
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gptkb:State_of_Georgia
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gptkbp:subject
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gptkb:Fourteenth_Amendment
gptkb:Eighth_Amendment
death penalty
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gptkbp:subsequentHistory
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gptkb:Gregg_v._Georgia
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Sierra_Club_v._Morton
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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5
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