73 Quotes by 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.

I was put on death row because of hate.

For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.

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

The state of Alabama can take my freedom, the state of Alabama can take my future, but the state of Alabama cannot take my joy.

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.

When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.

It took me a little while to remember how to use a fork. You know, we don't use forks in the penitentiary. You get a spoon.

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