Capital punishment on trial : Furman v. Georgia and the death penalty in modern America /
"William Furman, an African-American and career criminal, shot and killed a white homeowner during a 1967 burglary in Savannah, Georgia. In short order he was arrested, put on trial, convicted by a nearly all-white jury, and sentenced to death. Furman's attorney, aided by the NAACP, dogged...
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2010]
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| Series: | Landmark law cases & American society.
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