When convict Caryl Chessman went to his death in California’s gas chamber last Monday, he did so against the strenuous protests of hundreds of New Yorkers who met in Greenwich Village two days earlier ...

He was mid-century America’s foremost tough-hooligan intellectual, a high school dropout and autodidact who wrote and published four books while waiting to die. He bragged colorfully about his ...

Joseph Naso, the "Alphabet Killer," may have been paying twisted homage to a death row inmate. The assertion was made by retired FBI task force investigator Ken Mains, who is attempting to solve cold ...

Authorities remove Caryl Chessman's handcuffs at a post-conviction court hearing. He became a media star during his long battle to save himself from "that ugly green room" — San Quentin's gas chamber.