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Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)
Capital Punishment on Trial Furman v Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America - Landmark Law Cases and American Society
Author: David M. Oshinsky
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 duri...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780700617104
ISBN-10: 0700617108
Publication Date: 4/14/2010
Pages: 144
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Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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