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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Gregg v. Georgia, Kennedy v. Louisiana, Harmelin v. Michigan, Roper v. Simmons, Bowers v. Hardwick, Atkins v. Virginia, Panetti v. Quarterman, Walton v. Arizona, Hope v. Pelzer, Coker v. Georgia, Ewing v. California, Herrera v. Collins, California v. Anderson, Lockyer v. Andrade, Felony murder and the death penalty in the United States, Furman v. Georgia, Baze v. Rees, Tennard v. Dretke, Stanford v. Kentucky, Oregon v. Guzek, Weems v. United States, Bigby v. Dretke, Ford v. Wainwright, Kansas v. Crane, United States v. Bajakajian, Connecticut Dept. of Public Safety v. Doe, Cooper Industries v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc., Thompson v. Oklahoma, Tison v. Arizona, Gates v. Collier, Enmund v. Florida, Farmer v. Brennan, Browning-Ferris Industries v. Kelco Disposal, Trop v. Dulles, Hudson v. McMillian, Spaziano v. Florida, Robinson v. California, United States v. Salerno, Holt v. Sarver, Penry v. Lynaugh, Pervear v. Massachusetts, Cooper v. Pate, Jones v. Cunningham, Powell v. Texas, Solem v. Helm, Rummel v. Estelle, Jackson v. Bishop, Lowenfield v. Phelps, Kansas v. Marsh, Lockett v. Ohio, Pulley v. Harris. Excerpt: Gregg v. Georgia, Proffitt v. Florida, Jurek v. Texas, Woodson v. North Carolina, and Roberts v. Louisiana, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), reaffirmed the United States Supreme Court's acceptance of the use of the death penalty in the United States, upholding, in particular, the death sentence imposed on Troy Leon Gregg. Referred to by a leading scholar as the July 2 Cases and elsewhere referred to by the lead case Gregg, the Supreme Court set forth the two main features that capital sentencing procedures must employ in order to comport with the Eighth Amendment bar on "cruel and unusual punishments." The decision essentially overturned the de facto moratorium on the death penalty imposed by the Court in its 1972 decis...
