ON Jan. 23, 1948, near the intersection of Sixth Street and Vermont Avenue, a 26-year-old career criminal named Caryl Chessman was arrested after a high-speed car chase and subsequently charged as Los ...
Caryl Chessman attracted worldwide attention 60 years ago when he argued that he should be spared execution because the 12 years he had spent on death row — then an American record — constituted cruel ...
On this day, May 2, in 1960, the “Red Light Bandit,” a cause celebre for a movement to ban the death penalty, was executed in California’s San Quentin Prison. Caryl Whittier Chessman got his nickname ...
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