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Sarat Austin

Gruesome spectacles : Botched executions and America's death penalty - California Standford Law Books 2014 - 273p

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.

ISBN: 9780804789165

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Capital Punishment - U S A 2. Executions and Executioners

Dewey Class. No.: 364.660973 / SAR