Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sarat, Austin (Author)
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Executions and executioners > United States > History. Capital punishment > United States > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.