Case Study: Furman V. Georgia
Furman v. Georgia Paper
Mary Amon
CJS/221
University of Phoenix
Gaylia Clark
William Henry Furman v. State of Georgia
In the year 1972, January in the State of Georgia. A gentleman named William Henry Furman went into a house to rob. In the middle of that night the resident woke up to see Furman robbing the house. In the process of escaping Furman tripped and his firearm fell and went off at that very time, killing the resident. The death was a tragic one, if one could describe. Furman did not plan or had any intention of killing the resident but accidentally death resulted. In an interrogation with the Police, Furman had told them that his firearm went off and discharged in killing the resident. Upon further interrogation and …show more content…
Georgia. Scott Turow, an author and attorney stated, “Race is the overwhelming element of our Criminal Justice system, no matter on which side you’re on”. Racial discrimination plays a pivotal role in death penalty sentencing. According to a source unknown, “the United States Supreme Court decision ruled on the requirement for a degree of consistency in the application of the death penalty. It effectively imposed a moratorium on the death penalty and struck down state systems that gave juries the ability to impose the death …show more content…
Furman arose from the death sentences among them. Findings indicated that the right criteria were not provided to the juries in deciding to vote for the death penalty. However, the Supreme Court ruled out the three death sentences, making it clear that they consisted of cruel and unusual punishment and violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. “Justice William O. Douglas concluded that the death penalty was inconsistently and disproportionately applied to those who were economically and socially disadvantaged”. It was held that Furman rights had been violated. The court reasons for stating that Furman rights was violated constituted to the fact that there wasn’t any uniformity across states with regards to how certain people are treated and sentenced to death and later executed. The court also came up with many factors that indicated error, in the sense that many blacks are convicted and sentenced to death more than white people. The aftermath of this case caused many states to re-write their statutes for capital offense and also to change their death penalty as well as some of their criminal procedures to see to it that the death penalty were based on known procedure and punitive deterrent rather than racial disparity and discrimination or any other factor that will not be deemed fair to the society and especially African
Mary Amon
CJS/221
University of Phoenix
Gaylia Clark
William Henry Furman v. State of Georgia
In the year 1972, January in the State of Georgia. A gentleman named William Henry Furman went into a house to rob. In the middle of that night the resident woke up to see Furman robbing the house. In the process of escaping Furman tripped and his firearm fell and went off at that very time, killing the resident. The death was a tragic one, if one could describe. Furman did not plan or had any intention of killing the resident but accidentally death resulted. In an interrogation with the Police, Furman had told them that his firearm went off and discharged in killing the resident. Upon further interrogation and …show more content…
Georgia. Scott Turow, an author and attorney stated, “Race is the overwhelming element of our Criminal Justice system, no matter on which side you’re on”. Racial discrimination plays a pivotal role in death penalty sentencing. According to a source unknown, “the United States Supreme Court decision ruled on the requirement for a degree of consistency in the application of the death penalty. It effectively imposed a moratorium on the death penalty and struck down state systems that gave juries the ability to impose the death …show more content…
Furman arose from the death sentences among them. Findings indicated that the right criteria were not provided to the juries in deciding to vote for the death penalty. However, the Supreme Court ruled out the three death sentences, making it clear that they consisted of cruel and unusual punishment and violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. “Justice William O. Douglas concluded that the death penalty was inconsistently and disproportionately applied to those who were economically and socially disadvantaged”. It was held that Furman rights had been violated. The court reasons for stating that Furman rights was violated constituted to the fact that there wasn’t any uniformity across states with regards to how certain people are treated and sentenced to death and later executed. The court also came up with many factors that indicated error, in the sense that many blacks are convicted and sentenced to death more than white people. The aftermath of this case caused many states to re-write their statutes for capital offense and also to change their death penalty as well as some of their criminal procedures to see to it that the death penalty were based on known procedure and punitive deterrent rather than racial disparity and discrimination or any other factor that will not be deemed fair to the society and especially African