Craig Brandon: The Electric Chair

Cover: 9780786444939 | The Electric Chair | An Unnatural American History | Craig Brandon

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Beschreibung

This book provides a history of the electric chair and analyzes its features, its development, and the manner of its use. Chapters cover the early conceptual stages as a humane alternative to hanging, and the rivalry between Edison and Westinghouse that was one of the main forces in the chair's adoption as a mode of execution. Also presented are an account of the terrible first execution and a number of the subsequent gruesome employments of the chair. The text explores the changing attitudes toward the chair as state after state replaced it with lethal injection.

Über den Autor

The late Craig Brandon was a professor at Keene State College in New Hampshire where he taught writing. He was also the author of numerous articles, a book of popular history, a newspaper journalist for two decades and served as an on-air expert for PBS, NBC, and History Channel television programs.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Preface

1 The Genie of the Gilded Age

2 The Hangman's Terrible Legacy

3 The Death Commission

4 The Battle of the Currents

5 The People v. William Kemmler

6 Westinghouse's Counterattack

7 Cruel and Unusual Punishment

8 The Human Experiment

9 The Reaction: "A Thrill of Indignation"

10 The First Era: 1892-1974

11 The Electric Chair Reborn: 1976-1998

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Details

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Fachbereich:	Strafrecht
Genre:	Importe , Recht
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780786444939
ISBN-10:	0786444932
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Brandon, Craig
Hersteller:	McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Craig Brandon
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.09.2009
Gewicht:	0,468 kg