Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty

by Austin Sarat

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804789169
• ISBN13: 9780804789165
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Stanford Law Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.7"