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FURMAN v. GEORGIA - Library of Congress

Bill of Rights of 1689, from which the language of the Eighth Amendment was taken, was concerned primarily with selective or irregular application of harsh penalties and that its aim was to forbid arbitrary and discrim-inatory penalties of a severe nature: 2 "Following the Norman conquest of England in

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