Furman v. Georgia: 1972
Suggestions For Further Reading
Aguirre, Adalberto. Race, Racism, and the Death Penalty in the United States. Berrien Spring, Mich.: Vande Vere, 1991.
Congregation of the Condemned: Voices Against the Death Penalty. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991.
Horwitz, Elinor Lander. Capital Punishment, U.S.A. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1973.
Masur, Louis P. Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation Of American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Radelet, Michael L. In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.
Trombley, Stephen. The Execution Protocol. Inside America's Capital Punishment Industry. New York: Crown Publishers, 1992.
Additional topics
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