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More on David Oshinsky's Examination of Captial Punishment

By Steve Hall

The Austin American-Statesman has, "In 'Capital Punishment on Trial,' UT's David Oshinsky takes clear look at death penalty's divisive history.  It's written by Jody Seaborn.The UT scholar and Pulitzer Prize winner's book is Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America.Here's an excerpt from the Statesman article:American attitudes toward the death penalty have been evolving since the country's beginning, when dozens of offenses were punishable by death and executions were carried out in public. Like many Americans today, hardly any of the founders were ambivalent about the death penalty, though a few Thomas Jefferson, for example sought to limit its use, and one in particular, Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence who considered capital punishment "the offspring of monarchical governments," argued for its abolition...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 23, 2010 (boomark / email).