William Henry Furman

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William Henry Furman was the central figure in Furman v. Georgia, the case in which the United States Supreme Court outlawed most uses of the death penalty in the United States. Furman was convicted of murdering William Micke in Savannah, Georgia on 11 August 1967 and subsequently sentenced to death. The sentence was overturned by the Supreme Court on the basis of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.

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• Suspended sentence: How the U.S. almost put capital punishment to death by Kevin Clarke.