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Author:

Christianson, Scott.

Title:

The last gasp : the rise and fall of the American gas chamber / Scott Christianson.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xiv, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Gas chambers--United States--History.
Capital punishment--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0520255623 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520255623 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)449860842

LCCN:

2009052476

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)