Format:
xiv, 325 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
23 cm
ISBN:
9780520255623
,
9780520271210
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
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
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
Keywords:
USA
;
Todesstrafe
;
Gaskammer
;
Geschichte 1900-1999
Author information:
Christianson, Scott 1947-2017
