Richard Moran

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Richard Moran explores the development of the electric chair, Executioners Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and the Invention of the Electric Chair. Read an excerpt in the Reading Room.

Music: Thin Blue Line soundtrack composer Phillip Glass tracks 1, 31

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