Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / Austin Sarat.
Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014Description: 273 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780804789165 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 364.660973 23
- HV8699.U5 S268 2014
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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.