| Title |
The last gasp : the rise and fall of the American gas chamber / Scott Christianson. |
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| Publication Info. |
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010] |
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©2010 |
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| Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department
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364.66 CHRISTIANSON |
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| Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction
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364.66 CHR |
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| Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department
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364.66 CH |
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| Description |
xiv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The rise of the lethal chamber -- 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 -- pt. 2. The fall of the gas chamber -- 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. |
| Subject |
Gas chambers -- United States -- History.
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Capital punishment -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
9780520255623 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520255623 cloth alkaline paper |
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