Format:
xiv, 325 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen ;
,
23 cm.
ISBN:
978-0-520-25562-3
,
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:
Todesstrafe
;
Gaskammer
URL:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=020499014&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Author information:
Christianson, Scott 1947-2017