Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

judge not that ye be not judged

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.

Poverty is a great equalizer