Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman V. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America

by David M. Oshinsky

Book Overview

In his first book since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Polio: An American Story, renowned historian David Oshinsky takes a new and closer look at the Supreme Court's controversial and much-debated stances on capital punishment-in the landmark case of Furman v. Georgia.

Career criminal William Furman shot and killed a homeowner during a 1967 burglary in Savannah, Georgia. Because it was a "black-on-white" crime in the racially troubled South,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700617116
• ISBN13: 9780700617111
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.8" x 9.1"