Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Writing for the court's majority, Justice Lewis F. Powell said the statistical study of Georgia's death penalty system "at most indicates a discrepancy that appears to correlate with race...
...justices upheld Georgia's death penalty law by a 5-4 vote...
They said statistics showing that killers of white victims are given death sentences far more frequently than killers of Black victims do not establish that the Georgia system violates the Constitution's equal-protection guarantees...
...closely watched Georgia dispute, perhaps the most important capital punishment case in a decade, had been hailed as the last sweeping attack against the death penalty...
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