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Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) (Landmark Law Cases & American Society)
David M. Oshinsky
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Paperback. Takes a fresh look at the Supreme Court's controversial and much-debated stances on capital punishment - in the landmark case of Furman versus Georgia. Series: Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFMC; JN; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 222.
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, it also was an open-and-shut case. The trial took less than a day, and the nearly all-white jury rendered a death sentence. Aided by the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, ... Read more
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, it also was an open-and-shut case. The trial took less than a day, and the nearly all-white jury rendered a death sentence. Aided by the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
Landmark Law Cases and American Society
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700617111
SKU
V9780700617111
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About David M. Oshinsky
David M. Oshinsky is Distinguished Teaching Professor and holder of the Jack S. Blanton Chair in History at the University of Texas and the Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professor at New York University. His other books include Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice, winner of the 1997 Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize; and A ... Read more
Reviews for Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) (Landmark Law Cases & American Society)
"Oshinsky tells a compelling story while putting that story in its full context. His book is both a gripping account of Furman v. Georgia and a complete survey of the American experience with the death penalty over the past half century." Stuart Banner, author of The Death Penalty: An American History "A meticulously researched and elegantly written account by a ... Read more