Author: Anthony Ray Hinton

Quotes

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.

- Anthony Ray Hinton

I witnessed other inmates' time run out, and I'd be lying if I said you don't ask yourself, 'Wow, is that going to happen to me?'

I witnessed other inmates' time run out, and I'd be lying if I said you don't ask yourself, 'Wow, is that going to happen to me?'

- Anthony Ray Hinton

What do you say to a person who is going to their death? Normally, we would just say, 'Hang in there, keep your hope up,' because there is hope until the very last second.

What do you say to a person who is going to their death? Normally, we would just say, 'Hang in there, keep your hope up,' because there is hope until the very last second.

- Anthony Ray Hinton

I want you to know there is a God. He sits high, but he looks low. He will destroy, but yet he will defend - and he defended me.

I want you to know there is a God. He sits high, but he looks low. He will destroy, but yet he will defend - and he defended me.

- Anthony Ray Hinton

Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.

Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.

- Anthony Ray Hinton

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 going to be alive.

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 going to be alive.

- Anthony Ray Hinton

I'm just trying to be a little tiny light in God's world.

I'm just trying to be a little tiny light in God's world.

- Anthony Ray Hinton

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

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

- Anthony Ray Hinton

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

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

- Anthony Ray Hinton

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