I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
My 15 years of freedom have been harder than all of my death row years combined. — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A lover hung on her death row. I was hooked on her disease. Highly strung like Cupid's bow. Whose arrows hungered meat. — Cradle Of Filth Copy Share Image
What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years? — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
Any rap record from 1989 to 1999, besides [ones on] Death Row, we did promotions for it. We had our hand in everything. — Steve Rifkind Copy Share Image
Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
“If life on death row is safer than life on the streets, it's hard to believe that the fear of execution is… — Levitt & Dubner Copy Share Image
For more than 20 years my identity was bonded with those people on death row, I cared about them. — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
If Arnold is elected, you know who I'd feel sorry for? The people on death row. Imagine, you're about to be executed,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Although I love all the great foods of the world, my death row meal would have to be cooked for me by… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity.… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
“She’d been inside Riverbend’s death row cells, with their blue doors and creamy concrete walls. She never wanted to return. The overwhelming… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I represented a man on death row whose lawyers had spent all of eight hours looking into his claim of innocence. I… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
“There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Death row groupies mystify me. These women spend their lives visiting the condemned religiously, writing them daily, falling in love with them,… — Robert Blecker Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of the death penalty. At some level I think killing is wrong, but I don't have sympathy for… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
“Prison is designed to separate, isolate, and alienate you from everyone and everything. You're not allowed to do so much as touch… — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“But he did refuse to answer one question on the MMPI. “And I told the guy I would leave this one particular… — Robert Blecker Copy Share Image
When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Someone asked me if I would like to write a man on death row, be a pen pal, and I was like,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“It was like being a prisoner on death row who survives month after month and becomes accustomed to the life, while he… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“Being a hangman requires you to take someone else’s life based on someone else’s judgment, and carry it out on someone else’s… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things.… — Sister Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
Death Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
You get to know everyone on death row. You become friends with them and their families. I met some great guys. Everyone… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
Believe me, when you're sitting on death row, you want the appeal process to take time; as long as you're going through… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
I vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this. — Thomas J. Grasso Copy Share Image