Capital Punishment on Trial
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-whit...
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-whit...
