Book · 1888
Report of the Commission to Investigate and Report the Most Humane and Practical Method of Carrying Into Effect the Sentence of Death in Capital Cases
Publication
- Title
- Report of the Commission to Investigate and Report the Most Humane and Practical Method of Carrying Into Effect the Sentence of Death in Capital Cases
- Author
- Elbridge Thomas Gerry (Columbia College, Class of 1857)
- Form
- Book
- First published
- 1888
- Publisher
- As commission chairman, principal author of the state report recommending electrocution, leading to New York’s adoption of the electric chair
Complete works of Elbridge Thomas Gerry (3)
- 1883 Cruelty to Children · Essay on child-protection law
- 1888 Report of the Commission to Investigate and Report the Most Humane and Practical Method of Carrying Into Effect the Sentence of Death in Capital Cases · As commission chairman, principal author of the state report recommending electrocution, leading to New York’s adoption of the electric chair this record
- 1913 Manual of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children · Compiled by Gerry as longtime NYSPCC president
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Gerry, Elbridge Thomas. Report of the Commission to Investigate and Report the Most Humane and Practical Method of Carrying Into Effect the Sentence of Death in Capital Cases. As commission chairman, principal author of the state report recommending electrocution, leading to New York’s adoption of the electric chair, 1888.
Foundation record: https://philolexianfoundation.org/members/gerry-elbridge-thomas-cc-1857/report-of-the-commission-to-investigate-and-report-the-most-humane-and-practical-1888.html