Author: Anthony Ray Hinton

Quotes

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

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

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 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

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

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'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 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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