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why the real bad in life were real for. me me. and me so well it's my way. that i had a clue what i'd go through out of never i'm a human again. he likes going and being with a guy. he just gets so excited about going but at the same time it brings up the old memories so he's pretty hard to live with before and after. more so
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after when he comes back because all these memories are back and it's like he's living it all over again. never given. me a land. all right. when we were younger it was like you couldn't make money was for because you like got to like that in a way mom and when my mom comes full of it look at me like. like. did you like what she did that white lady actually that's nice. and then how how he was like i mean i guess he knew he was in jail yeah but he didn't know it was
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like so serious he didn't talk about it and her one night specifically i sat outside my dad like well you know i'm a mom i'm in prison and do you think it was yeah it was just me and him and i don't know what age or anything like we may in prison he was like bring me. the kids are . numbers just you know that you guys met in jail you were the nurse at the county jail. and he was there and so i don't remember the exact moment but i remember hearing about it was the most political person in the tyranny i was about is selling his. you know the one thing that. i felt a pain in my heart for him. i had to question never so much but yet sometimes you
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didn't want to talk about the past but there were so many questions. oh how could you survive something like they're. not coming would you fix a broken. wrong i tell people what to do ok. yeah oh. for that picture it was actually in the living on the same couch but. i think it was grandma maybe grandpa i just thinks claimed it in very simple terms they said mommy cappy got beat up very badly and she died and people
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think that daddy greg did it and that he's in jail for that. ok my name gregg well what now my nightmare started on may thirty first one thousand nine hundred five when my wife was found murdered brutally as anybody can imagine granddaughter froman she didn't mean right you know the whole nine yards and on t.v. and in the movies you always see the jury's going to daven it not this but there's a happy group of people you ever saw they were high five and each other seven each other in the back you know it was ridiculous up scene but this is our home and the judge says to me he says mr well you've been found guilty by a jury of your peers could not do that then he said your senate to be executed by lethal injection all right i saw him come when he blindsided me caught me unawares when he said it for time reason we cannot lethally inject you with the electric you if the power goes out we will hang you and if the rope break by god sun will take out on a trail change. just
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for the few of the bands who jordan would stay here so he said then the chair would spare his family now we get the big one the stuff we come back was it sit there stuff as it were we get to be here he did look over all right we're back he still did. that when. albert were here with any still didn't move i suppose. you were thinking all the get willing to lay out your. eyes looking outward looking outward from a look at oh my god what we got two people trying to elicit false as. this is over this is really easy just to break out of his beer. i know. you were sleeping really good. memory everything. is things i
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destroyed all my brain cells ended up. and most of them for the prison show on t.v. if he used a nine point one he reckoned i only nine point five and galveston i am pleased to announce here in the show is the witness to innocence the texas freedom to or we've got eight exonerate he's in town tonight who have all been wrongfully convicted sent to death row and then exonerated and ron you are from a see new mexico no i was on death row now makes you i just have to be passing through the state wrong place wrong time you're just cruising down on your motorcycle we never stopped in new mexico we cruise right through it the murder it happened a week before we even got there a cop had killed this guy and they they've actually framed dust cover up for the cop who we let this in
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a sense we're all exonerated people from death row we've all been on the road we know what it's like down there right but we're the people that are true to our word we're told we're going to leave there we're going to do something about this what we're doing and the way we do this is we go all over and we try to end the death penalty. but when i went to death row i wasn't arrested i was rescued. i woulda either died then killed shot or i would have killed somebody because of biker wars back and forth back and forth people killing each other i went to eleven funerals in the club killed by other other clubs. then when i got out in talk about it a lot of people go they go right to the press and they start talking the media all over stuff i did my head anyone anything to do it i got to get my life and tracked i have to work and i have to start my life over. along without help.
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i worked eighteen hours a day i didn't want to talk to people i didn't like everybody knows my face so i hid at work i didn't ever give a thought to the other guys i thought i didn't know who is the other guys that were innocent on death row. i'll practice my talking my speech in here are generally watching t.v. with no money around. like a politician much like speaking right now i don't. i've never given the same speech twice never.
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let him. get your room with a frown. yet when i was a real little we learn how to do it to hear you have a sack in your back or we're going to texas so when the minute. before i was eighteen i was trying to get arrested over twenty five. and i want to offer my master. i turn eighteen. when i've been promoted throughout the morning. and i had. a robbery case that i was probably guilty that. i was conveyed to him and given a five lifesome. and that's when i began to work home i sat began to change him. and denounced my past and joined a political movement a prison movement and then in nineteen seventy three november twenty seventh i came
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as i was accused of leading up arriving poor people's got murder to kill the whatever and that for the next nine years i had to fight for my life. first of all let me. say think each and every one of you all so begin to see i'm here tonight not because of the system but in spite of. i'm here tonight because you were there for you know just like you. got a call for your lives and at the time when i was convicted i wanted for trial in my second trial i was going to get it and since it died that's at court will be somebody that they say we were here on the campus there was blackmail so we never do this it was have against me said it walking a cookie with his head i would have to try with no remorse why should i how he was i treated innocent. i'd sure just like i mean.
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