L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.
I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder.
Don't respect a lot of rappers, feel I had a harder life
Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years?
In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.
People would ask me how I could stand the long campaigning, how I could stand being charged with the responsibilities of a great nation, one of the most powerful and difficult jobs in the world. It wasn't any more difficult than picking cotton all day or shaking peanuts.
I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs and suffer such indignities and hardships.
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
My 15 years of freedom have been harder than all of my death row years combined.
