“…Electric chair…”

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“…Substituting lethal gas for electric chair as method of carrying out sentences of death in D.C…”
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Table of Contents: “…Mortal Recoil: Early American Execution Scenes and the Electric Chair --…”
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Table of Contents: “….-- Sweet death in the electric chair…”

Table of Contents: “…The law's machinery of death -- Death clerk -- The aging hit man : Anthony Antone -- Executing the insane : Alvin Ford -- The electric chair : Bob Sullivan -- Racism : James Adams and James Dupree Henry -- Executing juveniles : Paul Magill -- The poet : Stephen Todd Booker -- The landmark case : Jim Hitchcock -- My roommate : Joseph Green Brown -- The innocent man : Bennie Demps -- Missing in action : David Funchess -- Poorhouse justice : David Washington -- Killed by a legal technicality : Ronald Straight.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- The Doppelgänger radar -- Three ways without water (or the day roadkill, drunk driving, and the electric chair were invented) -- Send more paramedics: the zombie movie drinking game.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Devil's Island -- Errand boy -- Trick monkey -- American laugh-nosed beet -- Murderers darn my socks -- Sucker -- Big for seventh grade -- Prison guy plays ball -- Nice little church boy -- Not ready -- Best in the country -- What about the electric chair? -- One-woman commando unit -- Al Capone's baseball -- Looking for Scarface -- Capone washed your shirts -- Baseball on Tuesday -- Not on my team -- Daddy's little Miss -- Warning -- It never rains on Monday -- Al Capone's mama -- She's not cute -- Like a regular sister -- My gap -- Convict baseball -- Idiot -- Tall for her age -- Convict choir boy -- Eye -- My dad -- Button box -- Sun and the moon -- Happy birthday -- Truth -- Waiting -- Carrie Kelly -- What happened? …”

Table of Contents: “…LeFlouria -- Cole Blease's pardoning pen: state power and penal reform in South Carolina / Amy Louise Wood -- Hanging, the electric chair, and death penalty reform in the early twentieth-century South / Vivien Miller -- The making of the modern death penalty in Jim Crow North Carolina / Seth Kotch.…”
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