The amazing story of how the electric chair developed not out of the desire for a method of execution more humane than hanging but of an effort by ...
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Apr 05, 2010
Converse
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Main focus is on the legal manuevering around the first execution by electrocution. Much of the legal action result of the conflict between Westinghouse & Edison. Basically, Edison, stuck with a direct current system that was proving unpopular once people realized that it required a generation plant every few miles, tried to make the use of alternating current, championed by Westinghouse, in an execution into a marketing ploy that would show that alternating current was too dangerous to have ar
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Jul 22, 2010
Allie
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Horrifying, yet informative. I already kind of disliked Edison, now I rather hate him for his role in the electric chair. I wish that the book went a little more into the electric chair's role in the 20th century, but when a book goes into this much detail you can't make the focus too broad. The illustrations of the electric chairs may make people sitting next to you on the subway nervous.
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