#ImLivingProof... that we send the innocent to die. (Ray Krone) — Transcript

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1. 0:01my name is ray crone
2. 0:04in 1992 i was sentenced to death at the
3. 0:05age of 35.
4. 0:09i spent almost three years on death row
5. 0:13and i was released in 2002. to start my
6. 0:16life all over again
7. 0:17at the age of 45.
8. 0:20i didn't go in at 18 years old i didn't
9. 0:22go in as a 20 year old kid
10. 0:24i didn't go in coming from a broken
11. 0:25family or a difficult childhood
12. 0:29i did almost seven years in the military
13. 0:32i i was working for the post office to
14. 0:33tie my rests and i had a personal pride
15. 0:35in myself of who i was and what i
16. 0:37accomplished
17. 0:39years when i was in prison when people
18. 0:41seemed to care about me was my family
19. 0:42people knew me because
20. 0:43everybody else thought i was a murderer
21. 0:44and so i deserve death
22. 0:47that's kind of the way our justice
23. 0:48system works you know we convict
24. 0:49somebody of something and people say oh
25. 0:51good kill him and they don't want to
26. 0:52know any of the details the facts or
27. 0:53even if he is guilty
28. 0:59and thankfully my family and friends
29. 1:01didn't give up and give in and that gave
30. 1:03me the strength to keep going
31. 1:07my family was able to get that dna
32. 1:09testing
33. 1:11that's when the doors opened up for me
34. 1:12with a match to a man that lived right
35. 1:14down the road from the murder
36. 1:16i was innocent god knew i was innocent
37. 1:18and my family and friends stood by me
38. 1:19that whole 10 years
39. 1:21[Music]
40. 1:25you know i can't take away the
41. 1:26frustration of the different
42. 1:28negative emotions that come from being
43. 1:30locked up for those years
44. 1:32but maybe i could help lessen it maybe i
45. 1:34could even ease
46. 1:35it somewhat by talking about it by
47. 1:37sharing my story with others and knowing
48. 1:39that it meant something to them
49. 1:46i think being able to talk about it and
50. 1:47having somebody appreciate it somebody
51. 1:49come up and
52. 1:50and say thank you you really made a
53. 1:51difference in my life
54. 1:56it's not work it's a therapy for me it's
55. 1:59almost like a religious experience an
56. 2:00epiphany to say yes something good did
57. 2:02come
58. 2:03from that horrible 10 years
59. 2:13i'm thankful to help other men and women
60. 2:14until they've been on death row for
61. 2:16something they didn't do
62. 2:18and you should never give up when you
63. 2:19know you're right
64. 2:22[Music]