Overview
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2010]
©2010 - Locale
- United States
- Contents
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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
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. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-310) and index.
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 -- 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.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780520255623
0520255623 - Physical Description
- xiv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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