Oprah Interviews Anthony Ray Hinton, An Innocent Man Who Spent 30 Years on Death Row | NowThis — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:03or cell was just 30 feet from the death
3. 0:08chamber where men would have to take the
4. 0:12walk down your hallway and walk to the
5. 0:16death chamber and when they were killed
6. 0:18you could smell their flesh furgus and
7. 0:20in your time their use you witnessed
8. 0:2454:54 meal and then one woman really she
9. 0:29could execute
10. 0:30[Music]
11. 0:47I was trying to figure out what does
12. 0:51time become are you counting the days is
13. 0:55there is there like calendar time in
14. 0:57your head do Tuesdays or Wednesdays or
15. 1:00Thursdays or Fridays matter if it's me
16. 1:02or if it's December does it matter no
17. 1:04time time is nothing like a lost war in
18. 1:08fact time don't even exist because
19. 1:13you're in a place where when day time is
20. 1:18an end they gonna come each and they
21. 1:22gonna strap you down in chair
22. 1:30and find the gun first they lost the gun
23. 1:32then accused Brian Stevenson of stealing
24. 1:34the gun yes they find the gun and they
25. 1:37realize beyond a shadow of a doubt those
26. 1:40bullets could not have come from the Sun
27. 1:42and that the whole thing was a sham yes
28. 1:45they still refuse to reopen
29. 1:47yes and it took the United States
30. 1:51Supreme Court I never forget he came
31. 1:54down to the prison he said ray the
32. 1:57judges in Alabama is not gonna do the
33. 1:59right thing and he sent more have to
34. 2:02take this case to the United States
35. 2:03Supreme Court but he say I need to tell
36. 2:06you something he said if they rule
37. 2:08against you the state of Alabama will
38. 2:11execute you within two years and believe
39. 2:16we're not hearing that was somewhat of a
40. 2:19relief because it could be over I was
41. 2:22tired of sitting out of town being in
42. 2:24his cage and I said Susan found my case
43. 2:33you