Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes

Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.

I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

I want to look my fellow Americans directly in the eye and declare to them, 'I am not the anthrax killer.' I know nothing about the anthrax attacks. I had absolutely nothing to do with this terrible crime.

I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.

The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.

I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.

I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name.

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

It is better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be condemned.

If you’re going to have the death penalty, you had better be sure that you have the right man.

The innocent are frequently punished instead of the guilty

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

We have a situation where a young man is basically convicted of his own murder.

About 30 percent of the time, witnesses in real cases, who pick someone and say yes, that is the person who committed the crime, are wrong.

I'm being treated like a criminal by the Polish government. It's just insane. I haven't done anything. What are they accusing me of?

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly.

My father was never really a big part of my life, he ended up passing away a few years ago, my biological father. And the guy I consider my dad, he was incarcerated for a crime he didn't even commit, which is part of the reason I protest.

There are many innocent people in prison.

People have died in jail that have been innocent.

If someone is trying to frame you, don't you want to know who, what, when, where and why?

I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit.