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David Oshinsky's Book on Capital Punishment Now Available

By Steve Hall

The Pulitzer prize-winning UT scholar's latest book is Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America, and it's available for purchase."Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian Releases Book on Capital Punishment," is the title of a UT news release, via Newswise.In a year when the death penalty continues to stir passions from Texas to Connecticut and beyond, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Oshinsky?s new book will help Americans better understand the history, politics and role of capital punishment in the United States.In ?Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America, ? (University Press of Kansas, 2010) the University of Texas at Austin professor delves into the 1972 Supreme Court case that temporarily halted executions in the country but unexpectedly cleared the way for their return...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 15, 2010 (boomark / email).