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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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Chapter 1 Envisioning the Lethal Chamber -
Chapter 2 Fashioning a Frightful Weapon of War -
Chapter 3 Devising “Constructive Peacetime Uses” -
Chapter 4 Staging the World’s First Gas Execution -
Chapter 5 “Like Watering Flowers” -
Chapter 6 Pillar of Respectability -
Chapter 7 The Rising Storm -
Chapter 8 Adapted for Genocide -
Chapter 9 Clouds of Abolition -
Chapter 10 The Battle over Capital Punishment -
Chapter 11 “Cruel and Unusual Punishment”? -
Chapter 12 The Last Gasp -
Appendix 1 Earl C. Liston’s Patent Application -
Appendix 2 Persons Executed by Lethal Gas in the United States, by State, 1924–1999 - Notes
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- Index
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- Source:
- The Last Gasp
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Envisioning the Lethal Chamber -
Chapter 2 Fashioning a Frightful Weapon of War -
Chapter 3 Devising “Constructive Peacetime Uses” -
Chapter 4 Staging the World’s First Gas Execution -
Chapter 5 “Like Watering Flowers” -
Chapter 6 Pillar of Respectability -
Chapter 7 The Rising Storm -
Chapter 8 Adapted for Genocide -
Chapter 9 Clouds of Abolition -
Chapter 10 The Battle over Capital Punishment -
Chapter 11 “Cruel and Unusual Punishment”? -
Chapter 12 The Last Gasp -
Appendix 1 Earl C. Liston’s Patent Application -
Appendix 2 Persons Executed by Lethal Gas in the United States, by State, 1924–1999 - Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
