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Drimmer, Frederick

Executions in America : over three hundred years of crime and capital punishment in America / Frederick Drimmer. - viii, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

• Kemmler
• Old Sparky
• Electricians Extraordinary
• The Big Sleep
• Death by the Needle
• Firing Squad
• To Hang by the Neck
• From Nat Turner to the Clutter Killers
• Assassins of the President
• Not Guilty (I)
• Not Guilty (II)
• Last Words, Last Wishes,
• Last Laughs
• Epilogue

ISBN: 9781629142173 (paperback : alkaline paper)

LCCN: 2014029695

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Capital punishment--History.--United States
Executions and executioners--History.--United States
Criminals--United States--Biography.

Dewey Class. No.: 364.660973 DRI