Author: Anthony Ray Hinton

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Black, poor, without a father most of my life, one of 10 children - it was actually pretty amazing I had made it to the age of 29 without a noose around my neck.

Black, poor, without a father most of my life, one of 10 children - it was actually pretty amazing I had made it to the age of 29 without a noose around my neck.

- 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

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 hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.

I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.

- Anthony Ray Hinton

On September 22, 2002, my mama, Buhlar Hinton, died. When the guards told me, I gave up. She'd been deteriorating for a long time - I believe she died of a broken heart.

On September 22, 2002, my mama, Buhlar Hinton, died. When the guards told me, I gave up. She'd been deteriorating for a long time - I believe she died of a broken heart.

- 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

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

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

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 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.

- Anthony Ray Hinton

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