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Author : Beth A. Berkowitz
Release : 2006
Genre : Capital punishment
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Book Synopsis Execution and Invention by : Beth A. Berkowitz
Download or read book Execution and Invention written by Beth A. Berkowitz. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beth A. Berkowitz
Release : 2006
Genre : Capital punishment
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Book Synopsis Execution and Invention by : Beth A. Berkowitz
Download or read book Execution and Invention written by Beth A. Berkowitz. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Berkowitz explores modern scholarship on the ancient Rabbinic death penalty and offers a fresh perspective using the approaches of ritual studies, cultural criticism and Talmudic source criticism. She argues that the death penalty was used by the early Rabbis in an attempt to assert their authority.
Author : Richard Moran
Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Executioner's Current by : Richard Moran
Download or read book Executioner's Current written by Richard Moran. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "fascinating and provocative" story (The Washington Post) of high stakes competition between two titans that shows how the electric chair developed through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other. In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity” when he illuminated Manhattan’s Pearl Street with his direct current (DC) system. Six years later, George Westinghouse lit up Buffalo with his less expensive alternating current (AC). The two men quickly became locked in a fierce rivalry, made all the more complicated by a novel new application for their product: the electric chair. When Edison set out to persuade the state of New York to use Westinghouse’s current to execute condemned criminals, Westinghouse fought back in court, attempting to stop the first electrocution and keep AC from becoming the “executioner’s current.” In this meticulously researched account of the ensuing legal battle and the horribly botched first execution, Moran raises disturbing questions not only about electrocution, but about about our society’s tendency to rely on new technologies to answer moral questions.
Author : Eoin McCarthy
Release : 2006
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Book Synopsis Invention Exploration and Execution by : Eoin McCarthy
Download or read book Invention Exploration and Execution written by Eoin McCarthy. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Rhodes
Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Masters of Death by : Richard Rhodes
Download or read book Masters of Death written by Richard Rhodes. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Masters of Death, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen’s role in the Holocaust. These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final Solution. They murdered more than 1.5 million men, women, and children between 1941 and 1943, often by shooting them into killing pits, as at Babi Yar. These massive crimes have been generally overlooked or underestimated by Holocaust historians, who have focused on the gas chambers. In this painstaking account, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes profiles the eastern campaign’s architects as well as its “ordinary” soldiers and policemen, and helps us understand how such men were conditioned to carry out mass murder. Marshaling a vast array of documents and the testimony of perpetrators and survivors, this book is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and World War II.
