Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / Austin Sarat ; with Katherine Blumstein [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sarat, Austin, author.

Blumstein, Katherine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executions and executioners--United States--History.

Executions and executioners.

Capital punishment--United States--History.

Capital punishment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""How enviable a quiet death by lethal injection,"" wrote Justice Scalia, in a concurring opinion that denied review of a Texas death penalty case. But is it quiet? Renewed and vigorous debate over the death penalty has erupted as DNA testing has proven that many on death row are in fact innocent. In this debate, however, the guilty have been forgotten. In his new book, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty, renowned legal scholar Austin Sarat describes just how unquiet death by execution can be. If we assume a death row prisoner is guilty, how can we

Contents:

Contents; CHAPTER 1- The Mere Extinguishment of Life? Technological Efficiency, Botched Executions, and the Legitimacy of Capital Punishment in the United States; CHAPTER 2- A Clumsy, Inefficient, Inhuman Thing Death by Hanging; CHAPTER 3- When Science Fails Electrocution; CHAPTER 4- A Short and Unhappy History The Gas Chamber; CHAPTER 5- "How Enviable a Quiet Death" Lethal Injection; CHAPTER 6- Botched Executions and the Struggle to End Capital Punishment; Appendix A; Appendix B; Acknowledgments; A Note on Collaboration; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804791724

0804791724

OCLC:

879202922