California was unable to execute a single criminal from 1967 to 1992. Other states, using new laws to conform with the ''Furman v. Georgia'' decision, eventually began carrying out the death penalty under the new laws. Justices Douglas, Stewart, Brennan, White and Marshall were in the majority with Justices Rehnquist, Blackmun, Powell and Burger in the minority.
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