ictoria, a graduate student in a German university, notices that her German friends hold their forks in their left hand while eating meat. However, she, being an American, cuts her meat and then transfers the fork to her right hand. This scenario exemplifies the prevalent in different countries.

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.