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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.
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  • 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.
LCCN
2009052476
OCLC
ssj0000421776
Author
Christianson, Scott.
Title
The last gasp [electronic resource] : the rise and fall of the American gas chamber / Scott Christianson.
Imprint
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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