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The men on death row had been told the world would be better without them. I tried to say that this may not be where we want to be, but let's do what we can for one another.

My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.

When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.

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.

I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.

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.

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.

I have no respect for the prosecutors, the judges. And I say that not with malice in my heart. I say it because they took 30 years from me.

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 high and mighty and you're above the law, you don't have to answer to nobody, but I've got news for you.

I cannot hate, because my Bible teaches me not to hate.

Death row prisoners face enormous challenges in finding lawyers who will assist them.

I was born with a mother who loved me unconditionally and with a sense of humor.

To me, America need to clean up their own home before they tell another country about human rights. I'm a primary example. America don't care nothing about human rights.

I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit.

A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.

The last time I saw my mom was in 1997. My mom started getting sick, and my mom finally passed away in 2002. My mom was my world. My mom was everything to me. We didn't have money. We didn't have a whole lot of materialistic things, but one thing I can truly say, that my mother loved me and all of her children unconditionally.

It took me a little while to remember how to use a fork. You know, we don't use forks in the penitentiary. You get a spoon.

Death row was the only place where I never witnessed racism. We all went to bed with a death sentence on our heads and woke up that way. We had to become each other's support system.

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

In the South, people in power feel they don't have to answer to no one.