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Your Rights: Trials and Punishments

Question 3 • (2026-2027) Riggin -- American Government 1st Nine Weeks (1st Semester) BLDG

The impact of Furman v. Georgia (1972) was that states had to

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promise to use the death penalty only with approval from the Supreme Court.

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throw out the old Miranda warning and write a new one.

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agree to throw out all state laws regarding crime and impose national standards.

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create clear standards to be applied fairly before imposing the death penalty.

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