When convict Caryl Chessman went to his death in California’s gas chamber last Monday, he did so against the strenuous protests of hundreds of New Yorkers who met in Greenwich Village two days earlier ...
On this day, May 2, in 1960, Caryl Whittier Chessman went to the gas chamber in California’s San Quentin Prison. Chessman — also known as the “Red Light Bandit” — was once a cause celebre for the ...