MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009052476
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020 $a9780520255623 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aHV8699.U5$bC415 2010
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100 1 $aChristianson, Scott.
245 14 $aThe last gasp :$bthe rise and fall of the American gas chamber /$cScott Christianson.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$cc2010.
263 $a1007
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $apt. 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.
650 0 $aGas chambers$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aCapital punishment$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.