The last gasp : the rise and fall of the American gas chamber /

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The Last Gasp takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detail, award-winning writer Scott Christianson tells a dreadful story that is full of surprising and provocative new findings. First constructed in Nevada in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Christianson, Scott
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2010.
Temas:
1900-1999
Gas chambers > United States > History.
Capital punishment > United States > History > 20th century.
Peine de mort > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Capital punishment
Gas chambers
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Envisioning the lethal chamber
  • Fashioning a frightful weapon of war
  • Devising "constructive peacetime uses"
  • Staging the world's first gas execution
  • "Like watering flowers"
  • Pillar of respectability
  • The rising storm
  • Adapted for genocide
  • Clouds of abolition
  • The battle over capital punishment
  • "Cruel and unusual punishment"?
  • The last gasp
  • Appendix 1. Earl C. Liston's patent application
  • Appendix 2. Persons executed by lethal gas in the United States, by state, 1924-1999.

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