id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3516 Capital punishment in the United States - Wikipedia .html text/html 17600 2175 66 Georgia, reducing all death sentences pending at the time to life imprisonment.[15] Subsequently, a majority of states passed new death penalty statutes, and the court affirmed the legality of capital punishment in the 1976 case Gregg v. U.S. Supreme Court seat in Washington, D.C. Instead of abandoning capital punishment, 37 states enacted new death penalty statutes that attempted to address the concerns of White and Stewart in Furman. Simmons that the juvenile death penalty was abolished due to the United States Supreme Court finding that the execution of juveniles is in conflict with the Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment, which deal with cruel and unusual punishment. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson made his state the 15th in the nation to outlaw capital punishment when he signed a law abolishing the death penalty, his office said. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3516.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3516.txt