Cell 2455, Death Row
A Death Row prisoner applies legal knowledge gained behind bars to battle for his own survival. True story. Whit, condemned and awaiting execution, reviews the events of his life that has brought him…
Cell 2455, Death Row
A Death Row prisoner applies legal knowledge gained behind bars to battle for his own survival. True story. Whit, condemned and awaiting execution, reviews the events of his life that has brought him to Cell 2455 on San Quentin's Death Row, a story he had told in a autobiography that became a sensational best-seller. As a boy, the young Whit stole groceries to help feed his impoverished family, later moving on into major crime to impress a young gang moll, Jo-Anne, and turns into a cold-blooded thug when he is repudiated by the girl he loves, Doll. And by his own lawyer when he is arrested and tried as the infamous Lover's Lane Bandit. In cell 2455, he studies law to the point where he wins stay after stay, twice within minutes of his scheduled execution. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> A death row convict begins writing his autobiography, detailing his life in crime and searches for an answer whether society, genes or poverty are the culprits for pushing a man towards crime. At the same time he studies law to stay alive and fight his conviction and death sentence through appeals after appeals. —Fella_shibby@yahoo.com
Cell 2455, Death Row
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A Death Row prisoner applies legal knowledge gained behind bars to battle for his own survival. True story. Whit, condemned and awaiting execution, reviews the events of his life that has brought him to Cell 2455 on San Quentin's Death Row, a story he had told in a autobiography that became a sensational best-seller.
As a boy, the young Whit stole groceries to help feed his impoverished family, later moving on into major crime to impress a young gang moll, Jo-Anne, and turns into a cold-blooded thug when he is repudiated by the girl he loves, Doll. And by his own lawyer when he is arrested and tried as the infamous Lover's Lane Bandit. In cell 2455, he studies law to the point where he wins stay after stay, twice within minutes of his scheduled execution.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> A death row convict begins writing his autobiography, detailing his life in crime and searches for an answer whether society, genes or poverty are the culprits for pushing a man towards crime. At the same time he studies law to stay alive and fight his conviction and death sentence through appeals after appeals. —Fella_shibby@yahoo.com.