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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Moran, Richard.     Subjects     Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.     Westinghouse, George, 1846-1914.     Electrocution -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Moran, Richard.       by title:      Executioner's curren...         MARC Display

Executioner's current : Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the invention of the electric chair / Richard Moran. by Moran, Richard. New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2003. Subjects Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.   Westinghouse, George, 1846-1914.   Electrocution -- United States -- History. ISBN:  9780375724466 (paperback) : Description:  xxii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm Edition:  1st Vintage books ed. Contents:  "William, it is time" -- The battle of the currents: Edison versus Westinghouse, DC versus AC -- The new electrical execution law -- Harold Brown and the "executioner's current" -- "I'll take the rope": the life, crime, and trial of William Kemmler -- Unusually cruel punishment -- Neither cruel nor unusual punishment -- Kemmler's legacy: the search for a humane method of execution. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Moran makes clear how this industry tug-of-war raised many profound and disturbing questions, not only about electrocution but about the technological nature of the search for a humane method of execution. And the fundamental problem, he says, remains with us today: No method of execution can ever be considered humane."--Jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.66 Moran Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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