Furman V. Georgia
Author | : Rebecca Stefoff |
Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780761425830 |
Examines the 1972 Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia in regard to the death penalty.
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Author | : Rebecca Stefoff |
Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780761425830 |
Examines the 1972 Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia in regard to the death penalty.
Author | : D.J. Herda |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishers, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2013-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1464501785 |
Should the death penalty be considered cruel and unusual punishment? This was the question brought before the United States Supreme Court in 1972. In FURMAN V. GEORGIA: THE DEATH PENALTY CASE, author D. J. Herda examines the ideas and arguments behind this landmark case. Presented in a lively, thought-provoking overview, Herda brings to life the people and events of this controversial decision and sheds light on the current controversy still raging across the country today.
Author | : Burt M. Henson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Capital punishment |
ISBN | : 9780531112854 |
Discusses the history of capital punishment, explains the United States Supreme Court's decision in Furman v. Georgia, and explores the impact of this case.
Author | : D. J. Herda |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2016-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0766084302 |
The death penalty is surely one of the most highly contentious points the Supreme Court has had to weigh in on. Whether you believe in the death penalty or not, the Furman v. Georgia case was groundbreaking in its decision to stay Furmans execution because it was arbitrary and, very possibly, racially motivated. Though it did not stop capital punishment, the case changed the way states had to weigh their decisions. Also included are questions to consider, primary source documents, and a chronology of the case.
Author | : David M. Oshinsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes a new and closer look at the Supreme Court's controversial and much-debated stance on capital punishment in the landmark case of Furman v. Georgia.
Author | : Robert Neil Smith |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2015-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1621900940 |
"Follows a homicide case committed in Georgia in 1927 from the crime to the executions of those convicted of the crime almost a year later. Along the way, the narrative highlights a number of issues impacting the death penalty process, many of which are still relevant in the modern era of capital punishment in the United States ... Moreover, the case in question illustrates a range of themes prevalent in post-Progressive Georgia and brings them together to create a broader narrative. Thus, issues of race, class, and gender emerge from what was supposed to be a neutral process; ... demonstrates that capital punishment cannot be administered in an untainted fashion, but its finality demands that it must be"--From Athenaeum@UGA website.
Author | : Daniel Allen Hearn |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2015-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786498692 |
In the state of Georgia, 1025 men and women are known to have been hanged or electrocuted for capital crimes in the century after the Civil War. Based on more than twenty years of investigative research, this chronological record of these legal executions was pieced together from diverse sources in and outside of the state, with many details never before made public. The author documents the facts as they occurred without delving into the politics of capital punishment.
Author | : Amnesty International |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Capital punishment |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jen Marlowe |
Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2013-08-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1608462951 |
The true story of a woman’s fight for her brother’s life—and her own: “Essential for those interested in the U.S. justice system” (Library Journal). On September 21, 2011, Troy Anthony Davis was put to death by the State of Georgia. Davis’s execution was protested by hundreds of thousands of people across the globe, and Pope Benedict XVI, Pres. Jimmy Carter, and fifty-one members of Congress all appealed for clemency. Davis’s older sister, Martina, a former Army flight nurse who had served in the Gulf War, was one of Davis’s strongest advocates—despite the fact that she was battling liver and metastatic breast cancer and died just weeks after her brother’s death by lethal injection. This book, coauthored by Martina and writer Jen Marlowe, tells the intimate story of an ordinary man caught up in an inexorable tragedy. From his childhood in racially charged Savannah; to the confused events that led to the 1989 shooting of a police officer; to Davis’s sudden arrest, conviction, and two-decade fight to prove his innocence, I Am Troy Davis takes us inside a broken legal system where life and death hang in the balance. It is also an inspiring testament to the unbreakable bond of family and the resilience of love, and reminds us that even when you reach the end of justice, voices from across the world can rise together in chorus and proclaim, “I am Troy Davis.” “Martina Correia’s heroic fight to save her brother’s life while battling for her own serves as a powerful testament for activists.” —The Nation “Should be read and cherished.” —Maya Angelou, author and civil rights activist