The Electric Chair: An Unnatural American History

Craig Brandon

msi 2016 · McFarland

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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.

À propos de l'auteur

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.