Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman V. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America
(Part of the Landmark Law Cases and American Society Series)
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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:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 4.8" x 9.1"
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