The mindset is the attitudes established that someone has. They are a collection of thoughts and beliefs held by an individual or a group of people that are so attached to them that creates a powerful bond that is hard to walk away from it.
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.