{"product_id":"the-electric-chair-an-unnatural-american-history-9780786444939","title":"The Electric Chair: An Unnatural American History","description":"\u003cp\u003e This book provides a history of the electric chair and analyzes its features, its development, and the manner of its use. Chapters cover the early conceptual stages as a humane alternative to hanging, and the rivalry between Edison and Westinghouse that was one of the main forces in the chair's adoption as a mode of execution. Also presented are an account of the terrible first execution and a number of the subsequent gruesome employments of the chair. The text explores the changing attitudes toward the chair as state after state replaced it with lethal injection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe late \u003cb\u003eCraig Brandon\u003c\/b\u003e was a professor at Keene State College in New Hampshire where he taught writing. He was also the author of numerous articles, a book of popular history, a newspaper journalist for two decades and served as an on-air expert for PBS, NBC, and History Channel television programs.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845226139922,"sku":"9780786444939","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8c909ecb-5e8f-405f-8e39-133fce907f2c.jpg?v=1737344661","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-electric-chair-an-unnatural-american-history-9780786444939","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}