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>> when we met gerald mccullough at the river bend maximum security institution near nashville, tennessee, he was halfway through a 12-year sentence on a sexual offense charge. >> there's no way out. there's just nothing to do. this is just a total waste of someone's life. >> despite his pessimism, mccullough had found a productive outlet to express his pain. ♪ they say it's raining in denver ♪ ♪ that it's really kind of cold but i'm just pulling time in nashville ♪ ♪ how am i supposed to know ♪ >> in a prison in nashville the home of country music, we decided it would be great if ...

Know what i mean? you feel like, well, i'm cool here. these are my boys, you know, what i mean? this is my home. >> but most inmates hold a much different opinion. >> prisons are hate factories. they can't produce anything but hate. all you have is hate, loneliness, greed, and just misery. >> when we met gerald mccullough at the river bend national security institution near nashville, tennessee, he was halfway through a 12-year sentence on a sexual offense charge. >> there's no way out. there's just nothing to do. this is just a total waste of someone's life. >> despite his pessimism, mccullou...

Nashville, tennessee, he was halfway through a 12-year sentence on a sexual offense charge. >> there's no way out. there's just nothing to do. this is just a total waste of someone's life. >> despite his pessimism, mccullough had found a productive outlet to express his pain. ♪ they say it's raining in denver ♪ ♪ that it's really kind of cold but i'm just pulling time in nashville ♪ ♪ how am i supposed to know ♪ >> in a prison in nashville the home of country music, we decided it would be great if we could find a country singer, and so we kind of made a callout to the other inmates...

>> this time the getaway turned into a high speed chase that ended with the two men under arrest. >> we wish it was a nightmare. wish it was a dream. hoping we wake up and it was a dream. you know? but it was over. >> alexander and his cousin each received life sentences not only for armed robbery and kidnapping, but much to alexander's surprise, rape. >> when they brought the charges, i didn't believe it. kidnap, rape. i didn't do none of this. i'm so sprung out. i don't know that the way it's going down, that it's rape. or that it's kidnapping. i'm serious. i'm dead serious. what you see on ...

Instructions that are online and in the rules of criminal procedure books indicates that the offense charge of second degree murder, a category 1, is manslaughter. a category 2 is third degree felony murder. vehicular homicide, non-homicide lessers would be an attempt, culpable negligence, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, battery and assault. these are part of the jury instructions that have been known to this court since i've been on the bench. so-disclosure. >> would the court ever for a second think -- >> i'm not finished speaking. >> i apologize. >> thank you. the possibility of a c...