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title: 'BOOKS: "Capital Punishment On Trial"'
description: 'A new book by David Oshinsky entitled “Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America” takes a closer look at the…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/books-capital-punishment-on-trial'
section: news
date: '2010-01-28T21:16:11-05:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:27:36-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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A new book by **David Oshinsky** entitled "*Capital Punishment on Trial:* Furman v. Georgia *and the Death Penalty in Modern America*" takes a closer look at the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that stopped the death penalty in 1972. The author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who is the holder of the Jack S. Blanton Chair at the University of Texas and a visiting professor at New York University, discusses the debates and controversy surrounding the case of *Furman v. Georgia*, including a focus on the issues of racial prejudice and arbitrariness. Austin Sarat called the book "A meticulously researched and elegantly written account by a masterful storyteller.... Filled with striking insights." The book will be published by University Press of Kansas on April 14, 2010.

(D. Oshinsky, "Capital Punishment On Trial: *Furman v. Georgia* and the Death Penalty in Modern America," University Press of Kansas, April 14, 2010). See [**Books**](/books-death-penalty) and [**Supreme Court**](/news-us-supreme-court?did=248&scid=38).