![]() ![]() The California judge’s call to stay the execution one last time reached the prison five seconds after the cyanide pills had been dropped into the sulfuric acid. Lapierre interviews Chessman six times and records firsthand each last-ditch effort to save the man, who eluded execution eight times in 12 years. Particularly riveting-and grippingly written-is a chapter on the last days of death-row inmate Caryl Chessman, who insisted on his innocence to his dying breath. Here he recounts meetings with everyone from Mother Teresa to Mahatma Gandhi. As a reporter for Paris Match, among other periodicals, he has traveled the world and chronicled some seminal historical moments. Lapierre (The City of Joy, 1985, etc.) has had the writing gig of the century. An intriguing, albeit subjective, look at some of this century’s most interesting people. ![]()
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