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

- Anthony Ray Hinton
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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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