200 pp. Light age tanning of pages. Light shelf wear. No markings in text. A novel about a man on Death Row with narrative about the detachment of scientists and corrections officials who introduced the electric chair into America's prison system in 1890. Introduction by Anatole Broyard. Davis also wrote a non-fiction account of a Death Row prisoner, "Waiting for It."

Fiction. Technology. Corrections. Prison. Execution. Capital Punishment. Electrocution. Thomas Edison. Christopher Davis.