Pictures at an Execution. An Inquiry Into the Subject of Murder.

Lesser, Wendy

ISBN 10: 0674667352 / ISBN 13: 9780674667358

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1995

About this Item

270pp, notes, few bw ills. Or gray papered boards, black cloth spine, in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket, few page corners turned, rubbed along front edge of spine, chip at top of spine. Central to the author's investigation is a groundbreaking legal case in which a federal court judge was asked to decide whether a gas chamber execution would be broadcast on public TV. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pictures at an Execution. An Inquiry Into the Subject of Murder.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674667352
• ISBN 13: 9780674667358
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • True Crime
  • Language, Dictionaries, Trivia, Law

About this title

Synopsis

An investigation of society's attitude toward murder, both in art and in real life, recounts a famous legal case in which a federal court judge had to decide whether a gas-chamber execution would be broadcast on public television.

About the Author

Wendy Lesser is editor of The Threepenny Review.