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Index
Cover
Halftitle
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One The Rise of the Lethal Chamber
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
Part Two The Fall of the Gas Chamber
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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