Toforest Johnson

That's Jimmy Carter, and that's me.

That's me and Loretta Lynn.

She was giving a concert in Birmingham.

Uh-huh.

She carried me backstage to meet her.

That's Johnny Cash.

Oh, wow.

That's my daddy swearing me in for my first term.

There are some crimes that are so wrong and so horrible that they only deserve one punishment.

Over the course of my long career, I've had dozens and dozens of instances where these, I'll call them do-gooders, but they're good people.

They take up various causes of people that have been sentenced to death and they get interested in trying to help them and they all think they're always innocent.

I mean, mid-morning, I couldn't believe what I was reading.

I wouldn't have believed that something like this could have happened.

Everything.

Everything.

I don't know how the guy got indicted, how they got... I didn't see how the jury convicted him.

I would have never believed that that could have happened in Alabama.

No question in my mind, this guy was not guilty of this crime, and I couldn't comprehend how this could happen.

It's a unique absurdity that I've never seen before.

It's too late to give him back all those years he's been on death row, but it's not too late to correct it today and get him out for the future.