Crime

Crime History: ‘Red Light Bandit’ executed at San Quentin

By Scott McCabe
Published May 1, 2011 4:00am ET
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On this day, May 2, in 1960, the “Red Light Bandit,” a cause celebre for a movement to ban the death penalty, was executed in California’s San Quentin Prison.

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