Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> StandDown Texas Project

Criminal Law

: StandDown Texas Project

A New Book From Scott Christianson

By Steve Hall

New York-based scholar Scott Christianson's latest book is The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber.  It's published by the University of California Press.  The Last Gasp takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detail, award-winning writer Scott Christianson tells a dreadful story that is full of surprising and provocative new findings. First constructed in Nevada in 1924, the gas chamber, a method of killing sealed off and removed from the sight and hearing of witnesses, was originally touted as a ?humane? method of execution. Delving into science, war, industry, medicine, law, and politics, Christianson overturns this mythology for good...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 17, 2010 (boomark / email).