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Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / Austin Sarat.

By: Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014Description: 273 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780804789165 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.660973 23
LOC classification:
  • HV8699.U5 S268 2014
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HV8699 .U5 S268 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001355030

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.

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