Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty /
Sarat, Austin,
Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / Austin Sarat. - 273 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780804789165 (cloth : alk. paper)
2013043599
Executions and executioners--History.--United States
Capital punishment--History.--United States
HV8699.U5 / S268 2014
364.660973
Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / Austin Sarat. - 273 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780804789165 (cloth : alk. paper)
2013043599
Executions and executioners--History.--United States
Capital punishment--History.--United States
HV8699.U5 / S268 2014
364.660973