Best quotes by Anthony Ray Hinton on Death

Checkout quotes by Anthony Ray Hinton on Death

• ‟ 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
  

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

  - Anthony Ray Hinton
  

• ‟ 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.

  - Anthony Ray Hinton
  

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

  - Anthony Ray Hinton
  

• ‟ I was put on death row because of hate.

  - Anthony Ray Hinton
  

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

  - Anthony Ray Hinton
  

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

  - 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.

  - Anthony Ray Hinton
  

• ‟ 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.

  - Anthony Ray Hinton
  

• ‟ Death Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M.

  - Anthony Ray Hinton
  

• ‟ 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.

  - Anthony Ray Hinton
  

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

  - Anthony Ray Hinton
  

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

  - Anthony Ray Hinton
  

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

  - Anthony Ray Hinton
  

• ‟ You get to know everyone on death row. You become friends with them and their families. I met some great guys. Everyone regrets what they did.

  - Anthony Ray Hinton
  

• ‟ When you have a death row case, you have to make 100 percent sure you have the right person. But these DAs in the state of Alabama are racist.

  - Anthony Ray Hinton