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

Name: Capital Punishment on Trial Furman V. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America
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ISBN: 9780700617111

ISBN-10: 0700617116

ISBN-13: 9780700617111

Edition: 2010

Authors: David M. Oshinsky

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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, 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, Furman's African-American attorney, Bobby Mayfield, doggedly appealed the verdict all the…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 4/14/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 158
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

He is also an associate editor of the American National Biography. Oshinsky writes about the brutality of penitentiary life in his book, Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. He earned a Senior Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and an appointment as Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin for his work on the penitentiary project. Oshinsky also received the 17th Annual Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for his novel.