Review: Galvin, Old Sparky

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

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


History of the electric chair. Badly copy-edited and mostly surface-y, facile, and kind of gossipy in tone, except for the last chapter where he talks about what happens when executions go wrong, both for the electric chair and for lethal injection. That chapter was horrifying, but also the most interesting chapter in the book.



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