My Last Day - Anthony Graves on being wrongly imprisoned on Texas' #DeathRow | Death row testimony — Transcript

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1. 0:03even the best and worst days of your
2. 0:05life have one thing in common they're 24
3. 0:08hours
4. 0:09long and I'll spend
5. 0:126,640 worst days of my life on death
6. 0:15throw being tortured and
7. 0:18abused controlled like an
8. 0:21animal when to sleep when to eat when to
9. 0:26Die the bruises heal but the Mind Gams
10. 0:29remain
11. 0:31it's the worst day of your life starting
12. 0:34again and again and
13. 0:37again 22 hours a day spend in this cage
14. 0:41without perspective without
15. 0:44hope there is only
16. 0:46silence silence creeps up on you it gets
17. 0:49louder and louder until it
18. 0:53screams how can you stay
19. 0:56sane one man wrapped his bed sheet
20. 0:58around him and set himself on fire
21. 1:01another ate his own
22. 1:02eyeball one man believed that if he ran
23. 1:05fast enough he could break through the
24. 1:08wall I mean how can you stay s when all
25. 1:12you hear see or smell is
26. 1:16desperation
27. 1:18fear
28. 1:20death I've seen hundreds of them walk
29. 1:22down this hallway for the last time some
30. 1:25guilty some
31. 1:27innocent some weren't ready to go go and
32. 1:31others wanted to be
33. 1:35killed 18 and 1/2 years of physical
34. 1:38imprisonment but they've never
35. 1:40incarcerated my
36. 1:41mind and even the worst day of your life
37. 1:45comes to an
38. 1:46[Music]
39. 1:48end this is my last
40. 1:53day and the beginning of many more
41. 1:56[Music]
42. 2:06[Music]