Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman V. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern AmericaIn 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 during a 1967 burglary in Savannah, Georgia. Because it was a black on white crime in the racially troubled South, it also was an