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.
The trial.
Because it was a "black-on-white" crime in the racially troubled South, it also was an open-and-shut case.
Career criminal William Furman shot and killed a homeowner during a 1967 burglary in Savannah, Georgia.
Georgia .
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
