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2. Gregg v. Georgia - Wikipedia

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   Gregg v. Georgia, Proffitt v. Florida, Jurek v. Texas, Woodson v. North Carolina, and Roberts v. Louisiana, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. It reaffirmed the Court's acceptance of the use of the death penalty in the United States, upholding, in particular, the death sentence imposed on Troy Leon Gregg. The ...

3. Troy Leon Gregg - Wikipedia

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   Troy Leon Gregg (April 29, 1948 – July 29, 1980) was the first condemned individual whose death sentence was upheld by the United States Supreme Court after the Court's decision in Furman v. Georgia invalidated all previous capital punishment laws in the United States. He later participated in the first successful escape from Reidsville State ...

4. Gregg County, Texas - Wikipedia

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   Website. www.co.gregg.tx.us. Gregg County is a county located in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 124,239. [2] Its county seat is Longview. [3] The county is named after John Gregg, a Confederate general killed in action during the American Civil War.

5. Furman v. Georgia - Wikipedia

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   Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), was a landmark criminal case in which the United States Supreme Court decided that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. It was a per curiam decision. Five justices each wrote separately in ...

6. Texas Courts of Appeals - Wikipedia

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   The Texas Courts of Appeals are part of the Texas judicial system. In Texas, all cases appealed from district and county courts, criminal and civil, go to one of the fourteen intermediate courts of appeals, with one exception: death penalty cases. The latter are taken directly to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the court of last resort for ...

7. Court records reappear in Big Chicken case as defendants are ...

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   October 16, 2024 at 10:16 AM. HARTLAND TWP. — The three defendants arrested after a fight broke out with deputies during Shaquille O'Neal's visit to Big Chicken in late September have been bound ...