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Author:
Sarat, Austin, author.
Title:
Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / Austin Sarat.
Publisher:
Stanford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
273 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Executions and executioners--United States--History.
Capital punishment--United States--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The mere extinguishment of life? : technological efficiency, botched executions and the legitimacy of capital punishment in the United States -- A clumsy, inefficient, inhuman thing : death by hanging -- When science fails : electrocution -- A short and unhappy history : the gas chamber -- "How enviable a quiet death . . ." : lethal injection -- Botched executions and the struggle to end capital punishment.
ISBN:
0804789169 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804789165 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)862928914
LCCN:
2013043599
Locations:
CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)
PWAX296 -- Southeastern Community College - West Burlington - Yohe Memorial Library (West Burlington)

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