# Cell 2455 Death Row 1955 ★★★ CC: Crime/Film-Noir \[1:17:05\]

While the Lindbergh law is no longer a issue. The death penalty is. For, or against it. Is it a deterrent? Is it not? Cruel and unjust punishment or just punishment. I don't agree with it being used in this particular case. Rape is a horrible crime. Kidnapping and robbery are traumatic but not crimes where someone should have their life taken. I posted this movie hoping to start a discussion about the death penalty. Do we need it? Do we abolish it? Is there a better way? Cell 2455, Death Row is a 1955 American crime film noir directed by Fred F. Sears and starring William Campbell and Robert Wright Campbell. It is based on the 1954 book of the same name. Caryl Whittier Chessman (May 27, 1921 – May 2, 1960) was a convicted robber, kidnapper and serial rapist who was sentenced to death for a series of crimes committed in January 1948 in the Los Angeles area. Chessman was charged with 17 counts and convicted under a loosely interpreted "Little Lindbergh law" later repealed, but not retroactively that defined kidnapping as a capital offense under certain circumstances. His case attracted worldwide attention, and helped propel the movement to end the use of capital punishment in the state of California. While in prison, Chessman was considered vexatious, with one judge writing in 1957, "\[Chessman is\] playing a game with the courts, stalling for time while the facts of the case grow cold." Chessman wrote four books, including his 1954 memoir Cell 2455, Death Row. The book was…

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1955
- Runtime: 1 h 17 min
- By: Wallace MacDonald
- Genres: Crime, Film noir
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/cell-2455-death-row-1955)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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