Challenges Quote by Anthony Ray Hinton

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human…

— John Grisham

“Most of the people on Death Row are here for no other reason than that their case got more publicity than others. The difference…

— Damien Echols

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants…

— John Grisham

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they…

— Thomas Sowell

Believe me, when you're sitting on death row, you want the appeal process to take time; as long as you're going through it, you're…

— Anthony Ray Hinton

I represented a man on death row whose lawyers had spent all of eight hours looking into his claim of innocence. I met men…

— Zephyr Teachout

It seems there are no rich on death row.

— Charles Grodin

But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more states would…

— John Paul Stevens

I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others,…

— Janet Reno

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding…

— Matt Gonzalez

Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where…

— Reid Hoffman

What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years?

— Anthony Ray Hinton