United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Coenen, Dan T., 1952-2004-10-04Encyclopedia article about the case of Furman v. Georgia (1972). Before 1972 Georgia and other states that provided for capital punishment used systems that gave juries broad discretion in deciding whether to impose the death penalty on persons convicted of death-eligible offenses. In Furman v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down this feature of Georgia's capital sentencing scheme and in effect invalidated the death penalty, as then administered, throughout the United States.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Judgments--GeorgiaCapital punishment--GeorgiaFurman v. Georgia (1972)Text