Kirk Bloodsworth: innocent freed from death row — Transcript

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1. 0:00okay so K can you please explain us what
2. 0:04what was your experience I was the first
3. 0:06death row inmate in the United States
4. 0:09freed by DNA testing I was on death row
5. 0:13um for 2 years and in prison for 9 years
6. 0:16for a crime I didn't commit so can you
7. 0:19please tell us what is your program
8. 0:21about uh witness and innocence is a
9. 0:24nonprofit organization that is um
10. 0:28comprised of its members are former
11. 0:30death row survivors like myself I mean
12. 0:33we've all been on death row and we're
13. 0:35comrades in arms to abolish the death
14. 0:38penalty in the United States and what
15. 0:39makes us unique our organization is run
16. 0:42by um and its members and its run by and
17. 0:46its staff a good portion of its staff
18. 0:48and it's a third of its board members
19. 0:51are uh exonerated death row
20. 0:54of okay so can you tell us how will you
21. 0:59help the other inmates other people
22. 1:02suffer the same problem as you well it's
23. 1:06it it translates everywhere um whether
24. 1:08it's Taiwan or uh Italy or anywhere in
25. 1:12this world um innocent people um can you
26. 1:17know be sentenced to death anywhere that
27. 1:21that death py resides because we're not
28. 1:23perfect we're we're human beings and we
29. 1:26make mistakes and um it so can happen
30. 1:29easily
31. 1:30anyone okay thank you very much you're
32. 1:32welcome you're welcome