Anthony Ray Hinton: How he survived Death Row — Transcript

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1. 0:00what do you say to a person that you
2. 0:02know is going to they depth normally we
3. 0:08would just say or hang in there keep
4. 0:11your hope up because there is hope until
5. 0:14their very last second like yes same
6. 0:33thing to take my life for me
7. 0:35it just didn't take me from
8. 0:55the next morning you most definitely
9. 0:57could tale execution took place because
10. 0:59you could smell his flesh burning oh
11. 1:02that smell stay linger for at least two
12. 1:07days and it like he get up in your
13. 1:08Nasser and you can't get it out so it
14. 1:13was just the hardest feeling you could
15. 1:16imagine being that close to there or the
16. 1:20death chain we would be on the boss and
17. 1:25that was the sound and let the person
18. 1:27know that we was with him unto the very
19. 1:29end because we didn't know whether he
20. 1:31had family or friends that are in his
21. 1:35support so since we are was effeminate
22. 1:39we just we let him know through being
23. 1:42and banging that we was just willing hi
24. 1:45it's a tragic day too
25. 1:47because mr. hidden has spent 30 years
26. 1:48locked in a five by eight cell where the
27. 1:51state of Alabama tried to kill him every
28. 1:53day for 30 years and only thing I want
29. 1:55to do is just celebrate how wonderful it
30. 1:57is that this man finally has his freedom
31. 1:59back what has been the biggest believe
32. 2:09we're not just being free he asked to
33. 2:14this day I still someone can't believe
34. 2:19it
35. 2:20you around a whole bunch of people that
36. 2:23you don't know you find yourself are
37. 2:29staring at people thinking that they
38. 2:31might be staying that you are so it's
39. 2:34it's just minutes are trying to get back
40. 2:38used to being around people other than
41. 2:41the guys that I've been around for
42. 2:42thirty years
43. 2:44but all of us that say that we believe
44. 2:47in justice this is the case to start
45. 2:49shopping because I shouldn't sit on
46. 2:52death row 30 years all they had to do
47. 2:54was test the glow but when you think you
48. 2:57hide and mighty and you above the law
49. 2:59you don't have to answer to nobody but I
50. 3:02got news for everybody that played upon
51. 3:04seeing them into death row
52. 3:06you realize to go it's all I ever see my
53. 3:08favorite verse was mark 11:24 for and
54. 3:12say for what thing soever you desire
55. 3:14when you pray believe in them and you
56. 3:17shall have them
57. 3:18you don't say that I think about it I
58. 3:21considered you have to do this in order
59. 3:23for me it said whatever things you
60. 3:25desire when you pray and so that was the
61. 3:29key to me when I come across the
62. 3:31inscription I was taught by my mother
63. 3:33that God can do everything but fail and
64. 3:36so believing in God the way I did I knew
65. 3:41if I pray that the truth would come out
66. 3:45it would come out if he did then my
67. 3:48understanding of the scripture then that
68. 3:50would make God a life force my life or I
69. 3:54breathe fresh air now I feel good about
70. 3:57myself I know that I didn't do it and
71. 4:01the fact that they didn't care whether
72. 4:04they was gonna kill em man that's on
73. 4:07their country it's not on mine