March 28, 2010
Judging the Death Penalty
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Death-row inmates at San Quentin State Prison, in California, were executed in the prison's notorious gas chamber until the mid-1990s, when a court ruled the method cruel and unusual.
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Popperfoto, Getty Images
Death-row inmates at San Quentin State Prison, in California, were executed in the prison's notorious gas chamber until the mid-1990s, when a court ruled the method cruel and unusual.
William Henry Furman shot and killed William Micki late one night in August 1967. Furman was burglarizing Micki's home, in Savannah, Ga., when his victim awoke and interrupted the crime. Later, Furman told the police that he had fired into darkness; he seemed shocked to learn that Micki was dead.
Eleven members of the jury that tried Furman were white. Furman, a black man, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. But his trial—and his life—were not
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