People come out of prison and aren't treated like I've been treated. I didn't kill anybody. I didn't violate anybody's rights. My rights were violated. Nobody likes to be hated, but the whole world hated Mary Beth Whitehead.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.
Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.
I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.
When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.
I hate victims who respect their executioners.