Abstract
In 1976 the court upheld many of those laws in Gregg v. Georgia. Since capital punishment resumed in 1977, more than 1,300 persons have been executed. Criminal justice professor Evan Mandery tells the story of the Furman and Gregg decisions and the legal campaign against the death penalty waged by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the civil rights group that won Brown v. Board of Education.