Gruesome spectacles: botched executions and America's death penalty

"Gruesome Spectacles is a history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to 2010. Using new research, Sarat traces the evolution of methods of execution that were employed during this time, and were meant to improve on the methods that went before, from hanging or...

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Autor principal: Sarat, Austin 1947- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California Stanford Law Books, An Imprint of Stanford University Press [2014]
En:Año: 2014
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