In Furman v. Georgia (1972), the Supreme Court ruled in William Furman’s favor, saying that Georgia had

The Supreme Court ruled that Georgia’s death-penalty system was being applied in an arbitrary and inconsistent way, without clear standards guiding which defendants received the sentence. That made the punishment unconstitutional under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Choice C, “established unclear standards for applying the death penalty,” best describes the ruling.

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