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American Justice

Season 5 · Episode 23

Caryl Chessman

0.043mOctober 13, 1996

Clever criminal who spent the last 12 years of his crusading against execution.

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Episode 1Cop Killers
Episode 2The Chicago Mob
Episode 3The Sam Sheppard Story
Episode 4Murder in the Family
Episode 5Vegas and the Mob
Episode 6Long Island Railroad Massacre
Episode 7Bounty Hunters
Episode 8The Pamela Smart Story
Episode 9John Wayne Gacy: Buried Secrets
Episode 10When Cops Kill
Episode 11Hot Pursuit
Episode 12Great Crimes & Trials: John Christie of Rillington Place
Episode 13Denis Nilsen: The Kindly Killer
Episode 14Mob Hit Men
Episode 15Bamber Family Murders
Episode 16Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker
Episode 17The Menendez Murders
Episode 18Hammersmith Murders: Jack the Stripper
Episode 19I Confess
Episode 20James Hanratty: A6 Murder
Episode 21To Catch a Killer: Homicide Detectives
Episode 22Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
Episode 23Caryl Chessman
Episode 24The McKay Kidnapping
Episode 25Black Panther
Episode 26Free to Kill: The Polly Klaas Murder
Episode 27Kennedy Assassination
Episode 28Massacre of the Tsar
Episode 29Death Row Women
Episode 30Neville Heath: The Lady Killer
Episode 31The Defenders
Episode 32Rise of the Mafia
Episode 101The Great Midwest Gangs
Episode 102The Kidnappers