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    Caryl Whittier Chessman (May 27, 1921 – May 2, 1960) was a convicted robber, kidnapper, serial rapist, and writer who was sentenced to death for a series...
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  • Chessman may refer to: Caryl Chessman (1921–1960), American criminal and author, recipient of the death penalty Chessman (wrestler), professional wrestler...
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    red and black, using the name Chessman and adopting a Goth-inspired look. The name came from famous criminal Caryl Chessman and the red face paint was supposed...
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  • and kidnapper Caryl Chessman (27 May 1921 – 2 May 1960). Sentenced to death in 1948 under California's Little Lindbergh Law, Chessman became internationally...
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    anti-capital punishment song with Gall, "Qui se souvient de Caryl Chessman?" ("Who remembers Caryl Chessman?"), about a prisoner on death row. Stewart Mason wrote...
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    was near the cell of death row inmate Caryl Chessman, who was writing his memoir Cell 2455, Death Row. Chessman had sent Bunker an issue of Argosy magazine...
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  • Abrahams (1901–1982) Caryl Chessman (1921–1960), convicted robber and rapist Caryl Churchill (born 1938), English playwright Caryl Parry Jones (born 1958)...
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    social causes. She vocally opposed death row inmate Caryl Chessman's death sentence and visited Chessman in prison until his execution in 1960. After the...
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    In 1960, he lobbied his father, then governor, to spare the life of Caryl Chessman and reportedly won a 60-day stay for him. Brown was both in favor of...
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  • Back Home" draws upon Haggard's relationships with two fellow inmates: Caryl Chessman, the "first modern American executed for a non-lethal kidnapping"; and...
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    same event supposedly occurred in the final, completed execution of Caryl Chessman in 1960. The condemned person is strapped into a chair within an airtight...
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    Pictures. He played a death row inmate, based loosely on the true story of Caryl Chessman, who staunchly proclaimed his innocence and obtained numerous reprieves...
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    already well known for his work with the Freedom Riders, his book on the Caryl Chessman case, and his radio coverage of trials. Kunstler also joined a group...
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  • name of Caryl Chessman, who had been sentenced to death on a technical charge of kidnapping. He was then able to connect the word "chessman" to the idea...
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    strangling two women, he died in the gas chamber on September 18, 1959. Caryl Chessman: convicted rapist, was given the death penalty in 1948 and executed...
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    crime qualified for capital punishment. This was what occurred in the Caryl Chessman case in California. Following the April 8, 1968 decision by the United...
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  • founded on July 21, 1957, by Genaro Delgado Parker (1929-2017). El caso Caryl Chessman was the first telenovela produced by the network. telenovelasperu. "Amar...
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    American flutist Lyor Cohen, former CEO of Warner Music Group (WMG) Caryl Chessman, known as the "Red Light Bandit", was a cause celebre for the movement...
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  • first broadcast on October 5, 2019. Brian Dugan David Edward Maust Caryl Chessman, American convicted kidnapper and rapist executed under statutes of...
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    drinking, he spent a week in solitary confinement, where he encountered Caryl Chessman, an author and death-row inmate. Meanwhile, "Rabbit" had successfully...
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  • Riots". New Statesman. 22 May 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2023. People v. Chessman, 52 Cal. 2d 467 (1959). "The History of the First Mass Fingerprinting Operation"...
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    the serial killer character, Thomas Bishop, believes he is the son of Caryl Chessman, who was executed in 1960 for various crimes including rape and kidnapping...
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  • Gertrude Morris for murdering her husband in 1952. He also defended rapist Caryl Chessman and stripper Sally Rand. In 1957, he was lead attorney for Lawrence...
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    magazine's Sportsman of the Year at age 17; in Covington, Kentucky Caryl Chessman was executed at 10:03 a.m. in the gas chamber at California's San Quentin...
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  • future, intelligent men will read in amazement about the murder of Caryl Chessman." But hard-hitting songs like that and the title song were softened...
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    Ernest Booth Edward Bunker Rory Calhoun (Timothy McCown) Neal Cassady Caryl Chessman Eldridge Cleaver Joseph Paul Cretzer Gerald Armond Gallego Ricardo "Pancho"...
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    matters, such as a May 1, 1960, piece on the upcoming execution of Caryl Chessman, which included Caen's recollection of witnessing a hanging as a young...
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  • of chocolate ice cream, and three six-packs of Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Caryl Chessman Kidnapping, rape and robbery 1960 Gas chamber A ham & cheese sandwich...
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  • Joseph Blake (1724) Spence Broughton (1792) Johannes Bückler (1803) Caryl Chessman (1960) Thomas Cox (1690) Isaac Darkin (1761) Jenny Diver (1741) Claude...
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  • editor on the Caryl Chessman death penalty case, arguing "Has the time come when the United States takes orders from other countries? The Chessman case is a...
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