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

Title: The last gasp [electronic resource] : the rise and fall of the American gas chamber / Scott Christianson.
Author: Christianson, Scott.
Publication: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2010.

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Description

1 online resource (xiv, 325 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Last gasp (Online)

Alternative Title

Last gasp (Online)

Subject

Gas chambers > United States > History
Capital punishment > United States > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

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