Cell 2455, Death Row
Chessman, Caryl / Longstreth, Joseph / Chessman, Caryl / Longstreth, Joseph 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.