The Court held in ________ that the death penalty as such was not cruel and unusual punishment but that the indiscriminate manner in which it was applied made the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment

A) Furman v. Georgia
B) Coker v. Georgia
C) Gregg v. Georgia
D) Godfrey v. Georgia


Answer: A

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