Century. By the 1930s, as many as 150 people were executed each year. However, public outrage and legal challenges caused the process to slow down. By 1972, capital punishment had virtually halted in the United States, pending the outcome of Furman v. Georgia (1972), when the Supreme Court outlawed capital punishment, from 1967 to 1980, there were almost no executions in the U. S.; the homicide rate increased dramatically from 5% in 1963 to almost 10% in 1973. About this time, the death penalty was…
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