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What is The Electric Chair : An Unnatural American History about?

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.

Author

Brandon, Craig, 1950-

Publisher

McFarland & Company; McFarland & Co.

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786444939

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science