Perspective
May 5, 2010
A Grisly Golden: Caryl Chessman's Execution
May 2, 2010 marked the 50th anniversary of Caryl Chessman's execution in San Quentin's gas chamber. Paul Von Blum of UCLA writes about the personal significance of this case.
Few people (if any) will pause to remember that May 2, 2010 is the 50th anniversary of the execution of Caryl Chessman in San Quentin's gas chamber. Even fewer will recall that the Chessman case was the capital punishment cause celebre in 1960, generating worldwide protests and a veritable firestorm of media coverage leading up to his execution. Especially in California, almost everyone attuned to the events of the day took a public s...
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