Old Sparky: The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty by Anthony Galvin

Old Sparky: The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty

Anthony Galvin

280 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime informative slow-paced
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In early 2013, Robert Gleason became the latest victim of the electric chair, a peculiarly American execution method. Shouting Pog mo thin ("Kiss my ass" in Gaelic) he grinned electricity shot through his system. When the current was switched off ...

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