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4-year-old daughter, killing them all. >> i miss them. but, no, i can't 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 i'm the one that killed them. i'm not going to sell out. i'm not going to change my views on the death penalty just because i'm facing the death penalty. i do think that death penalty is appropriate in some cases. and i've got a low tolerance for someone that claimed they didn't do something that they actually did. >> darrell is a...

>> 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 can't really know in a prison cell until you get there. and you get to the point where you don't really think about it. every day when we get up, a lot of us, we work on our cases. it's like getting in a car every day out there. every day we get up and get in that car and we hope we don't get run over. we're all going to die sometime. so thousands of people get killed in automobile wrecks in many other ways while we'r...

Tennessee has only executed one person. but that statistic doesn't 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 don't 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, i'm going to lay down and just deal it with, you know? >> while most of the men on death row hope for clemency, there is one inmate who admits his guilt and expects to be executed. >> i was convicted of four counts of first-degree...

In 1985. when i first went to death row, i was somewhat shocked. you can't really know in a prison cell until you get there. and you get to the point where you don't really think about it. every day when we get up, a lot of us, we work on our cases. it's like getting in a car every day out there. every day we get up and get in that car and we hope we don't get run over. we're all going to die sometime. so thousands of people get killed in automobile wrecks in many other ways while we're here waiting to be executed by the state. >> the fate of each man on death row will play out in its own time...

>> can you mitigate the death of four children? with a straight face? the fact that my children are dead, that i'm the one that killed them. i'm not going to sell out. i'm not going to change my views on the death penalty just because i'm facing the death penalty. i do think that death penalty is appropriate in some cases. and i've got a low tolerance for someone that claimed they didn't do something that they actually did. >> darrell is allowed only one hour of recreation time a day and must be escorted in chains and leg irons by two officers. >> any movement outside your cell is valued. the ...