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Remember: The protagonist of the story, the kid, was a killer. That was and is the simple, stark fact, that was and remains my point in authoring the type of novel I did. I wanted to examine violence-its meaning, its psychological roots, its social implications-in dramatic terms. If I succeeded to any degree, the thrust and power of the story derives from its rawness, its unprettied crudities. The title squares with the unfortunate tendency of...

Before Caryl Chessman had been sentenced to die in the gas chamber of California's San Quentin Prison, his life was consecrated to crime, to violence against society. Yet, in Cell 2455, Death Row, a few yards from the squat ugly green room, he has written this book as an act of contrition as a benefit to society that shares responsibility for his warped soul. In addition, a major motion picture had been made about this case that came out in 19...

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In June 1948, 27-year-old petty criminal Caryl Chessman was sentenced in California on two counts of sexual assault, receiving two death sentences as punishment in a case that remains one of the most baffling episodes in American legal history. This memoir offers an account of his life in crime and the early life that produced it.