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<p>In his first book since the Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>Polio: An American Story,</i> 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 <i>Furman v. Georgia</i>.</p> <p>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 way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in 1972 overturned Furman's sentence by a narrow 5-4 vote, ruling that Georgia's capital punishment statute, and by implication all other state death-penalty laws, was so arbitrary and capricious as to violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against "cruel and unusual punishment."</p> <p><i>Furman</i> effectively, if temporarily, halted capital punishment in the United States. Every death row inmate across the nation was resentenced to

Author

David M. Oshinsky

Publisher

Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780700617111

Subjects

Law