“Botched executions” common throughout U.S. history, says new book by Sarat, students
Submitted on Wednesday, 3/5/2014, at 4:41 PM
By Peter Rooney
The image on the book’s cover is lurid—an electric chair dripping with blood—and the title is just as provocative: Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty.