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At 10 a.m. on the 2nd of May 1960

United States District Judge Lewis Goodwin

Agreed to a state of execution in the case of cattle ches

Convicted kidnap

Telephone San Quentin prison to Halt the execution

She got the wrong number

This was the 9th Time

May 1948

Since then he had been on death row in San Quentin prison for 12 years

Protesting his innocence

List of the cat and mouse game the legal system have played

Caryl Chessman in his stocking feet

Through Garden

We're ready to be released into a pan of acid

George Goodman secretary had checked the number of the prison

The daughter of the execution chamber was closed

At 4:30 a.m. on Sunday the 18th of January 1948

A dentist named Thomas battle was driving South along the Pacific Coast Highway from Malibu California with

Girl named an Plaskett

The late model Ford started to follow them

Flashing a red light

Driver's license

Identification the man produced a gun

They gave him $15

Light colored Ford with a red Spotlight draw

Is Tommy Foster girl into his car

She kept

And a couple race to the police

Mulholland Drive

The red light Bandit

Happened in the early morning of the 22nd of January

This time the Bandit pulled the girl into his car her boyfriend escaped

Try to rape the girl

Unable to complete the ACT here again forced his victim to perform fellatio before releasing her

The next day after an armed robbery at Redondo Beach the suspect car was chased and stopped

One of the men in it ran off

Glendale California

I wasn't able to support his family

Jasmine had his first brush with the law at the age of 16

Car theft and Burg

Map for violent juvenile offenders

Over the next 11 years he served time for car

Text robbery the salt with a deadly weapon

He was an unusual prisoner with an IQ of 136

The San Quentin prison newspaper

A couple of weeks when he was arrested fleeing from the stolen car

The red light Bandits vehicle

And make it into a red light

What happened next Remain the subject of dispute

To being the red light Bandit

But he claimed that he was brutally

This was a crucial question

Following the Abduction of Charles Lindbergh's baby son

Kidnapping with bodily harm with intent to commit robbery

He would technically be eligible for the death sentence

Despite the fact that he had neither murdered or fully raped anyone

Chapman's trial inflamed public opinion by greatly exaggerating the

Jasmine Hartford attorneys among them Alan Matthews

He finally represented himself not very competently

But some observers thought that he was deliberately trying to ensure a mistrial

The identification procedures were all subject

Lock the floors

Some of the descriptions of the Bandit fitted him

Others did

The jury found him guilty on 17 cards

Including three of kidnapping

And recommended the death penalty

Like a cat

Carol Chesney turned out to have nine lives

His first attempt to save his life came in June 1948

Shortly after he had been moved to San qu

Shorthand notes

Jasmine appealed for a new trial

Another reporter the brother-in-law of the prosecuting attorney

Unreadable

About in June 1949

Jasmine was not asked for his approval

For the next 2 years

The United States became fascinated by the revelations of major criminals during the kaffara inquiries

4 to prove that the transcript was so inaccurate that a new trial must be called

But in May 1951

The US Supreme Court refused to consider his case

Joe DiMaggio

This rejected him

Set a date for execution on the 28th of March 1952

1952

Supreme Court

And then came the devastating news that the execution would be carried out on the 27th of June

Leave to appeal his case

For the rest of 1952 while the American public thrilled to the appearance of a new hero Hopalong Cassidy

Jasmine

What is bitter and lonely fight

Like to prove that his original trial had been fa

But in May 1953

At the beginning of 1954

Jasmine from taking his place in the gas Cham

But then on the day before he was due to die

Convinced California's Judge Thomas Keating to agree to another state of execution

I've got some news for you

You're going to be around for a little longer

Pleading his case

2455 death row

It quickly became an international best

Over the next 6 years

Bethany had done nothing to deserve to be on death row

The original identifications of him as the red light Bandit

I've been incorrectly carried

The California Supreme Court again refused to reconsider the case

The new execution date was set for the 30th of July 1954

California's attorney general was in fur

Is the Seesaw legal battle continued

In June 1957

The US Supreme Court finally took the dramatic step of ordering the California courts to hold a new hearing on the whole

Validity of the original Court transcripts

For the first time

Caryl Chessman must be present at the hearing

Accompanied by the new attorneys that the income from his books had enabled him to employ

And his lawyers went back and forth

Legal justification for demanding the death penalty had now been removed

On the state legislature had decided that the original law under which he had been condemned

Parole eligibility to everyone else had been convicted under it

Concentrate solely on the technical legal point on the trans

I'm not taking any broader issues into account

On the 7th of July 1959 chessman's attorneys Rosalie Asher and George Davis

Would advise that the California Supreme Court decided that the transcript was substantially correct

A new execution date was

For the 24th of October

1959

How to retrieve a 4 years

Faced with a definite date for execution

But he announced his determination to fight

An international petition was set up

There was astonishment that a man could have been kept waiting for so many years

In Italy

11 years for the gas chamber has expedited his guilt

Famous names who lent their support included Pope John the 23rd

How much schweitz

Eleanor Roosevelt

Queen Fabiola of Belgium

Pablo casals

Shirley MacLaine

Faced with this pressure

California's governor Edmund Brown

Announced that he was considering the Appeals

The local political reaction proved too strong

Turn on the 19th of October 1959

He refused to grant clemency

30 years later

In his book public Justice

Private Mercy

Chessman was a nasty arrogant I'm repentant

Almost 70 of the crimes he was convicted of

But I don't think those crimes deserve the death penalty

The seeds of doubt about the effectiveness of the death pen

Can I watch the people that killed

I concluded it didn't do any good

Capital punishment or not

For the state to do

It seemed to me that it's cheaper to life

Of everybody

The effect on the officials involved also conc

That's a terrible responsibility even though the jury and the courts of all decided he should die

Nevertheless the petitions may have played a part in persuading US Supreme Court Justice Douglas

To agree to another appeal to the Supreme Court

Turn on the 11th of January 1960

The quarter game refused to consider the case

Can you execution date was set for the 19th of February

Unexpected new twist with only one day to go

The abolition of the death penalty in California

To find a solution

Would be allowed to hold a televised press conference

I believe I have been all along I didn't know

Do the one point there was a willingness on my part when the Great many friends prevailed on me to

Consider accepting a connotation of sent

And that was rejected and made a political issue why I have

Decided since then that I'm either going to survive

Be Vindicated and walk the streets of free man or

I'm going to wind up dead

What if you were to secure your release tomorrow

What would be the first thing you do on the outside you have any idea

Well I don't know if I ever actually had

It's like a soldier

Feel the battlefield I don't know if he has hope or not he just keeps slogging forward as much as possible

Then wait for the results

Play Michelle might have the same way in a legal sense a shell might have hit me and that would have been the end of May

How many people have been executed in California while he waited on death row I believe before

Before I left

Incontinent

75 men and one

Well

In the sense that I saw

Walk by myself and he never returned and I had occasion to reflect on

And the fact that it often wasn't

Murder that was the capital of fence that was ignorance of the fact

The man

Did you see reading the paper where someone perhaps was more fortunate

Get a convection for second-degree murder on

What might be an identical set of facts that would put someone else

What's in the gas

I don't feel

There's anything Equitable or fair or sensible or socially valid about

Spell pun

Even when asked how he now

He reacted with dignity

I don't feel about it

I'm gone beyond the point

You know you don't have

Capac

Play the feel

By refusing to consider the death penalty abolition bill

After more than 11 years in the shadow of the gas chamber

The total of 8 days of execution

Humane Society

Defiantly

Abolition of capital punishment

Night

Protesters gathered outside the prison for a final video

Buy the morning set for Jasmine's execution their numbers have been increased by newsman from all over the world

Jasmine's attorneys we're making the last please to get another stay

Execution

Do a 10:00

Does 10:00 approach

Succeeded in persuading judge Goodman

Did the new arguments that should be considered

Is the final minutes ticked away

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Define to the last

Caryl Chessman held his breath for one last extra minute