Caryl Chessman Quotes

It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.

- Caryl Chessman

How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared.

- Caryl Chessman

The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.

- Caryl Chessman

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.

- Caryl Chessman

My soul is not for sale.

- Caryl Chessman

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

- Caryl Chessman

Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

- Caryl Chessman

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

- Caryl Chessman