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Georgia Supreme Court Bans Use of the Electric Chair

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2002 published in Prison Legal News December, 2002, page 20
Filed under: Stun Guns/Tasers, Civil Procedure, Standing, Death Penalty. Location: Georgia.
In a 4-to-3 decision, the Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a trial court and ruled that death by electrocution violated the state's constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The high court ordered that all future executions in Georgia will be carried out by lethal injection.

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