Death 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

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

On average, a prisoner in the U.S. spends around ten years on Death Row before execution.

— Susanna Reid

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

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

— Paul Simon

If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country…

— Jimmy Carter

We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have…

— John Grisham

I shouldn't have sat on death row 30 years. All they had to do was test the gun. But when you think you are…

— Anthony Ray Hinton

Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are…

— Tony Goldwyn

In death row every rule in society is flipped.

— Nick Yarris

I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards of 90…

— Scott Turow

No system of criminal justice can, or should, survive if it comes to depend for its continued effectiveness on the citizens' abdication through unawareness…

— Arthur Goldberg