pre-Furman (English, adj)
expansion: pre-Furman (not comparable)
Senses:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Prior to Furman v. Georgia, a 1972 legal case that ruled on the requirement for a degree of consistency in the application of the death penalty, leading to a de facto moratorium on capital punishment throughout the United States until 1976.
tags: US
not-comparable
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