The last gasp : the rise and fall of the American gas chamber /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2010], ©2010. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.