Download or read book Capital Punishment on Trial written by David M. Oshinsky and published by Landmark Law Cases & American. This book was released on 2010 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes a new and closer look at the Supreme Court's controversial and much-debated stance on capital punishment in the landmark case of Furman v. Georgia.