One major argument against the death penalty was the gruesomeness of the hangings, so in an attempt to make the death penalty more humane the electric chair, and later the lethal injection was introduced as an alternative. By 1972 the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Furman v. Georgia, ruled that the death penalty was in violation of the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the U.S Constitution Eighth Amendment based on Justice Marshal’s hypothesis that a public, once fully informed about the death penalty, would denounce it (Falco & Freiburger,
One major argument against the death penalty was the gruesomeness of the hangings, so in an attempt to make the death penalty more humane the electric chair, and later the lethal injection was introduced as an alternative. By 1972 the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Furman v. Georgia, ruled that the death penalty was in violation of the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the U.S Constitution Eighth Amendment based on Justice Marshal’s hypothesis that a public, once fully informed about the death penalty, would denounce it (Falco & Freiburger,