Sarat, Austin, <br/><br/>
Gruesome spectacles :  botched executions and America's death penalty / 
Austin Sarat. 
 - 273 pages ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780804789165 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013043599 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Executions and executioners--History.--United States<br/>Capital punishment--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV8699.U5  / S268 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>364.660973