Death Quote by John Grisham

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

— Anthony Ray Hinton

“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

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

“If life on death row is safer than life on the streets, it's hard to believe that the fear of execution is a driving…

— Levitt & Dubner

I'm not a fan of the death penalty. At some level I think killing is wrong, but I don't have sympathy for most of…

— Peter Moskos

Being on death row has taken so much from me as a human being.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

In death row every rule in society is flipped.

— Nick Yarris

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

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

I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas death row…

— Kerry Max Cook

Death Row is a bridge out of that ghetto world, giving voices to those people society thinks shouldn't be heard.

— Nate Dogg

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