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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 murder, my children. and the sentence is death on each count. it wasn't a question of who did it. there's no doubt. probably an hour and a hal...

>> 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...

>> in the past 45 years, 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 fo...

>> in the past 45 years, 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 fo...

Darrell holtom, like the other level cs, gets no visitation and is locked down 23 hours a day. >> we were the first state to have any such operation such as this level system with our death row inmates, and we have received both national and international attention with this. it's quite different than what you see in most operations. >> i was convicted of murder in the first degree. sentenced to death. i was on death row 8 1/2 years. it was almost like being in a closet. with no way out. the only way out would be to come out toe first. >> but when i was on death row, i went to the library ever...