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I found this really interesting. Innocent people being put to death may be a higher number than people want to believe. It‘s also more expensive to hold someone on death row. I was horrified to read that – even when there is additional evidence found to prove that someone is innocent, the Supreme Court is ok with that innocent person being put to death! Cont in comments...

This book is exactly what its subtitle says it is. When Edison got his electricity going, someone thought it would be a good idea to use it to execute criminals. So the electric chair was invented. Soon it had replaced hanging as the preferred method. To prove its efficacy, many animals, small and large, were killed with electricity. Even an elephant was killed that way. We have moved on to lethal injection now. Time to stop this.

There is a lot of information in this book. Starting with the evolution of the death penalty (man there were some gruesome techniques); to the invention and controversy of Old Sparky; to some of its most famous and gruesomely botched executions, this book isn‘t for the faint of heart. I thoroughly enjoyed it and each chapter taught me something that I had never known or considered before.

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While reading this book, people just hear me cursing in shock because there were methods of execution I had never heard of... including this one. 😳 #currentlyreading #ebook