Tag: Executions

Free Download Nigel Cawthorne, "Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day"
English | ISBN: 0785821198 | 2009 | 208 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
This fascinating and revealing book examines the social history behind this barbarism.

Free Download Daniel Allen Hearn, "Legal Executions in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri: A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1965"
English | ISBN: 0786498706 | 2016 | 220 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
In the five state region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri, 1027 men and women are known to have been legally hanged, gassed or electrocuted for capital crimes during the century after the Civil War. Drawing on thousands of hours of research, this comprehensive record covers each execution in chronological order, filling numerous gaps in a largely forgotten story of the American experience. The author presents each case dispassionately with the main focus given to essential facts.

Free Download Austin Sarat, "Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty"
English | ISBN: 0804789169 | 2014 | 288 pages | AZW3 | 599 KB
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.