“My name is Caryl Chessman. I am in the death house at San Quentin. I have been here for eight years. I am under sentence of death. I am scheduled to die... for a crime I did not commit.”— Caryl Chessman
“Written with the heavy heart and trembling hand of your highness's most heavy and most miserable prisoner and poor slave.”— Thomas Cromwell
“In the name of God, the most merciful, the most compassionate... I plead guilty.”— John Walker Lindh