Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty /
"Gruesome Spectacles is a history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to 2010. Using new research, Sarat traces the evolution of methods of execution that were employed during this time, and were meant to improve on the methods that went before, from hanging or...
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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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