TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarat,Austin
TI  - Gruesome spectacles: botched executions and America's death penalty 
SN  - 9780804789165 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HV8699.U5 S268 2014
U1  - 364.660973 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Executions and executioners
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Capital punishment
N1  - 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
ER  -