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>> in the past 45 years, tennessee has only executed one person. but that statistic doesnt give false hope to those living on death row. >> according to the tennessee supreme court, supposed to be executed on the eighth of june. i dont see clemency from the governor or anybody else in my future. >> i got within six days of execution date. in november of 2004. >> when it comes my time, hey, im going to lay down and just deal it with, you know? >> while most of the men on death row hope for clemen...

4-year-old daughter, killing them all. >> i miss them. but, no, i cant say that i feel any remorse. >> darrell has never tried to fight his death sentence. >> can you mitigate the death of four children? with a straight face? the fact that my children are dead, that im the one that killed them. im not going to sell out. im not going to change my views on the death penalty just because im facing the death penalty. i do think that death penalty is appropriate in some cases. and ive got a low toler...

>> john johnson has been on death row for 20 years. >> i was arrested in 1984, convicted of murder of my wife in 1985. when i first went to death row, i was somewhat shocked. you cant really know in a prison cell until you get there. and you get to the point where you dont really think about it. every day when we get up, a lot of us, we work on our cases. its like getting in a car every day out there. every day we get up and get in that car and we hope we dont get run over. were all going to die...

Convicted of murder of my wife in 1985. when i first went to death row, i was somewhat shocked. you cant really know in a prison cell until you get there. and you get to the point where you dont really think about it. every day when we get up, a lot of us, we work on our cases. its like getting in a car every day out there. every day we get up and get in that car and we hope we dont get run over. were all going to die sometime. so thousands of people get killed in automobile wrecks in many other...

Any remorse. >> darrell has never tried to fight his death sentence. >> can you mitigate the death of four children? with a straight face? the fact that my children are dead, that im the one that killed them. im not going to sell out. im not going to change my views on the death penalty just because im facing the death penalty. i do think that death penalty is appropriate in some cases. and ive got a low tolerance for someone that claimed they didnt do something that they actually did. >> darrel...