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Berkeley. 2010. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520255623. 325 pages. hardcover. Cover design by Sandy Drooker. keywords: United States History Military History Politics Crime Sociology. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Prize-winning, anti-death penalty author Scott Christianson charts the first murky history of the use of the gas chamber in the US and exposes some shocking facts. Execution by gas was really an American invention as the chemical warfare industry looked to other uses for its technology after WWI. The world's first gas execution was of a Chinese immigrant in Nevada in the 1920s. American Progressives and Eugenecists supported it, and by 1935, America's Nobel Prize-winning physician Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute, was calling for criminals and the mentally ill to be, 'disposed of in small euthanasia institutions supplied with proper gases. ' US companies collaborated with Germany in developing the gas chamber, and in developing and exporting gas for it in the 1930s. Use spread through Colorado, Arizona, Missouri, Wyoming, Oregon and California in the 1930s, Mississippi in 1947, and Maryland and New Mexico in the 1950s. The Last Gasp explores the public image of gas executions after 1945, Hollywood portrayals, the national moratorium against the death penalty that started in the early 1960s, and legal reverses in the 1990s. Today five states, including California, which has carried out the most gas executions of any state, retain the gas chamber as a possible execution method. inventory #37727.
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