If you are thinking of geography in terms of a specialty that a geographer would focus on, this is probably more in line with breaking geography into the five than into the several .

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.