Why did the request by slaveholding Missouri to join the Union in 1819 cause such angry debate? How was the crisis over the admittance of Missouri as a state
resolved?

In the case of furman v. georgia (1972), the united states supreme court ruled that the death penalty- in specific cases- being arbitrarily and inconsistently imposed, often in a discriminatory manner. as a result, the imposition of the death penalty as a punishment was stopped throughout the united states.