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

2011; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 48; Issue: 08 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.48-4658

ISSN

1943-5975

Autores

Scott Christianson,

Tópico(s)

Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture

Resumo

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE THE RISE OF THE LETHAL CHAMBER 1. Envisioning the Lethal Chamber 2. Fashioning a Frightful Weapon of War 3. Devising Constructive Peacetime Uses 4. Staging the World's First Gas Execution 5. Like Watering Flowers 6. Pillar of Respectability 7. The Rising Storm 8. Adapted for Genocide PART TWO THE FALL OF THE GAS CHAMBER 9. Clouds of Abolition 10. The Battle over Capital Punishment 11 Cruel and Unusual Punishment? 12. 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 Notes Select Bibliography Index

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