LEADER 02917nam 2200601 450 001 9910824346803321 005 20230803202301.0 010 $a0-8047-9172-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804791724 035 $a(CKB)3710000000107253 035 $a(EBL)1684228 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001195534 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12417587 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001195534 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11161697 035 $a(PQKB)10306058 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1684228 035 $a(DE-B1597)564362 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804791724 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1684228 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10866557 035 $a(OCoLC)879202922 035 $a(OCoLC)1198931187 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000107253 100 $a20140515h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGruesome spectacles $ebotched executions and America's death penalty /$fAustin Sarat ; with Katherine Blumstein [and three others] 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford Law Books,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (284 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8047-9945-8 311 $a0-8047-8916-9 327 $aContents; 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 330 $a""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 606 $aExecutions and executioners$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCapital punishment$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aExecutions and executioners$xHistory. 615 0$aCapital punishment$xHistory. 676 $a364.660973 700 $aSarat$b Austin$0254475 702 $aBlumstein$b Katherine 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824346803321 996 $aGruesome spectacles$94103488 997 $aUNINA