Talk:William Henry Furman

"standing before the Supreme Court"
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 * Four years after the landmark decision, Troy Leon Gregg, a man sentenced to death for a double killing during a robbery, would also be standing before the Supreme Court, also pleading for his life (See: Gregg v. Georgia). However, he would hear an entirely different decision; a decision that would end the short judicial abolition of the death penalty in the US and lead the renewal of the use of capital punishment in 1977 with the firing-squad execution of Gary Gilmore in Utah.

This is very dramatic-sounding, but I think it is almost certainly false. In general appellants do not appear before appeals courts; their lawyers do. However I would be interested in hearing more about it from someone who knows more about it. --Trovatore (talk) 02:22, 12 June 2009 (UTC)