Bibliograph

The last gasp, the rise and fall of the American gas chamber, Scott Christianson

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The last gasp, the rise and fall of the American gas chamber, Scott Christianson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The last gasp

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

449860842

Responsibility statement

Scott Christianson

Sub title

the rise and fall of the American gas chamber

Table Of 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: U.S. patent for the lethal gas chamber (1937/1939) -- Appendix 2: Persons executed by lethal gas in the United States, by state, 1924/1999

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