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Gregg v. Georgia was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision issued in 1976. Gregg lifted the de facto moratorium on capital punishment in the United States that resulted from the decision in Furman v. Georgia ( 1972). The court ruled that Georgia's death penalty laws satisfied constitutional requirements and thus that the penalty could be reinstated. The first execution after the ruling was of Utah murderer Gary Gilmore in 1977.

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