RT Book
T1 The last gasp: the rise and fall of the American gas chamber
A1 Christianson, Scott
LA English
PP Berkeley, Calif. u.a.
PB University of California Press
YR 2010
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/615857280
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV8699.U5
SN 9780520255623
K1 Gas chambers : United States : History
K1 Capital Punishment : United States : History : 20th century
K1 Todesstrafe
K1 Hinrichtung
K1 Usa
K1 Staatliche Gewalt
K1 Gewalt
K1 Gaskammer
K1 Nationalsozialismus
K1 NS
K1 Holocaust
K1 Shoah
K1 USA : Todesstrafe : Gaskammer : Geschichte 1900-1999