Caryl Chessman Quotes

• My soul is not for sale.

  Caryl Chessman

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• A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

  Caryl Chessman

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• If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn’t go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.

  Caryl Chessman

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  Tags in Public, Made

• Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

  Caryl Chessman

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  Tags in Fact, Light

• I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

  Caryl Chessman

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  Tags in Fellow, Self

• How, possibly, could the police have made the ‘mistake’ of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora’s Box of facts I have prepared.

  Caryl Chessman

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  Tags in Made, Wrong

• It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.

  Caryl Chessman

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  Tags in Myself, Hope

• The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.

  Caryl Chessman

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  Tags in Personally, Extra

Caryl Chessman (8)

Birth:	27th May, 1921
Death:	2nd May, 1960
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Criminal

About

Caryl Whittier Chessman was born in St. Joseph, Michigan. He was an American criminal. He was a convicted robber, kidnapper and rapist who was sentenced to death for a series of crimes committed in January 1948 in the Greater Los Angeles Area. While in prison, Chessman authored four books including his memoirs Cell 2455, Death Row. The book was adapted for the screen in 1955 and stars William Campbell as Chessman.

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