The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" id="mw6w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Supreme Court">United States Supreme Court</a> rules in the case <i id="mw7A"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furman_v._Georgia" id="mw7Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Furman v. Georgia">Furman v. Georgia</a></i> that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" id="mw7g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Eighth</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" id="mw7w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Fourteenth</a> Amendments and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.<sup about="#mwt74" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_29#cite_note-13" id="mw8A" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw8Q">[13]</span></a></sup>
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