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Gruesome Spectacles - Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty (Hardcover)
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Gruesome Spectacles - Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty (Hardcover)
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Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched,
mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to the
present. Since the book's initial publication in 2014, the cruel
and unusual executions of a number of people on death row,
including Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma and Joseph Wood in Arizona,
have made headlines and renewed vigorous debate surrounding the
death penalty in America. Austin Sarat's book instantly became an
essential resource for citizens, scholars, and lawmakers interested
in capital punishment-even the Supreme Court, which cited the book
in its recent opinion, Glossip v. Gross. Now in paperback, the book
includes a new preface outlining the latest twists and turns in the
death penalty debate, including the recent galvanization of
citizens and leaders alike as recent botched executions have
unfolded in the press. Sarat argues that unlike in the past,
today's botched executions seem less like inexplicable mishaps and
more like the latest symptoms of a death penalty machinery in
disarray. Gruesome Spectacles traces the historical evolution of
methods of execution, from hanging or firing squad to electrocution
to gas and lethal injection. Even though each of these technologies
was developed to "perfect" state killing by decreasing the chance
of a cruel death, an estimated three percent of all American
executions went awry in one way or another. Sarat recounts the
gripping and truly gruesome stories of some of these deaths-stories
obscured by history and to some extent, the popular press.
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