I went to Paris, I went to France, I went to England, I went to Ireland. In my mind, I can go wherever I wanted to go. I left death row every day.
When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.
I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit.
Death row prisoners face enormous challenges in finding lawyers who will assist them.
For 14 years, I could not find volunteer lawyers capable of providing the legal assistance I needed to prove my innocence.
I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.
I never used a gun in my life.
I don't believe that man was built to be put in a 5-by-7 for 30 years and have his sanity when he comes out if he doesn't find something to escape.
What do you say to a person who is going to their death? Normally, we would just say, 'Hang in there, keep your hope up,' because there is hope until the very last second.
Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren't built to be in a cage that long.
Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.
Being on death row has taken so much from me as a human being.
You get to know everyone on death row. You become friends with them and their families. I met some great guys. Everyone regrets what they did.
In the South, people in power feel they don't have to answer to no one.
My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.
I want people to realize that we can teach hate, but we also can teach love.
I've often thought books give you - put you in a world that you never thought you could go. And I often would say, I don't need to go to California. Give me a book that talks about California. And I can put it in my head and imagine what it looked like.
My mom was my mother and father. My father lost his mind when I was about 4 years old. And my mom did everything she could to make sure that we was brought up right.
There was a time I thought I'd never see the sun again.
I cannot hate, because my Bible teaches me not to hate.
