“Written with the heavy heart and trembling hand of your highness's most heavy and most miserable prisoner and poor slave.”— Thomas Cromwell
“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
“In the name of God, the most merciful, the most compassionate... I plead guilty.”— John Walker Lindh