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Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber
2011, University of California Press
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The last gasp: the rise and fall of the American gas chamber
2010, University of California Press
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Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber
2010, University of California Press
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Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber
2010, University of California Press
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Table of Contents
pt. 1. The rise of the lethal chamber
Envisioning the lethal chamber
Fashioning a frightful weapon of war
Devising "constructive peacetime uses"
Staging the world's first gas execution
"Like watering flowers"
Pillar of respectability
The rising storm
Adapted for genocide
pt. 2. The fall of the gas chamber
Clouds of abolition
The battle over capital punishment
"Cruel and unusual punishment"?
The last gasp
Appendix 1: U.S. patent for the lethal gas chamber (1937/1939)
Appendix 2: Persons executed by lethal gas in the United States, by state, 1924/1999.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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