My name is Anthony Ray Hinton. I am 63 years of age I grew up in Birmingham the state of Alabama in the USA. I like

the smell of freshly cut grass. I love the New York Yankees. I like to

barbecue and I like books. In fact I love books. I am in every way in ordinary guy. except for the fact that I spent half of my life on death row.

In this program, I'm going to tell you my story and how setting up a book club with my fellow inmates got me through

28 years of solitary confinement. Terry compartment.

I know that some of my listeners believe in the death penalty.

I want you to know that you have a constitution right to believe in the death penalty.

You have a God-given right to believe in the death penalty. You have a God-given right to believe in the death penalty.

I once believed in the death penalty until the death penalty came knocking at my door.

And I understand the hurt,

that when someone violent,

kill your loved one, kill your mother,

kill your daughter, son, wife, or whatever it might be. I know the hurt. But I want you to know

that the death penalty just solved no problem. It creates a problem. Look no farther than my case.

That should be enough to say,

hey, I cannot be for the death penalty.

Deaf road is a place of hell.

Deaf road is a place of hell. The noise will get you all day or all night. You got means crying

about this and that, and you trying to sit there and think how did I get

myself in this situation.

You have to somehow learn how to block all the noise out to even hear yourself think.

200 men. Some is beating on the wall, some is crying out, I didn't do it. Some is hauling for

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