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Essig, Mark. Edison & the Electric Chair: a Story of Light and Death.(Book Review)
Sept. 2003. 368p. illus. Walker, $26 (0-8027-1406-4). 364.66.
Using electrocution to carry out death penalties was an oddity in the history of both electricity and capital punishment and is invariably mentioned in accounts of each subject. Essig has thoroughly delved into this curio of technology and morality with a tone combining sober narration with arch bemusement for the bizarre and underhanded means that marked New York's adoption of the electric chair in the late 1880s. From background on electrical developments since Benjamin Franklin, and on the waning of the ...
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