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How do you feel
about what happened here today? There was a little bit of animosity in my
heart toward everybody on this Earth for sending me to death row, but eventually I did find a reason
in my heart to forgive and forget it. It's hard to get anybody to listen to you. I mean, it is terribly difficult
to be on death row, an innocent man and charged
with a potentially heinous crime. [cameras clicking] How close did you come to being executed? Five days. We knew that he was innocent. But it's hard,
like he said, to convince people for people to listen to you. But we're just looking forward
to our family coming together again. [Renee]That was joyful tears
about what happened here today? There was a little bit of animosity in my
heart toward everybody on this Earth for sending me to death row, but eventually I did find a reason
in my heart to forgive and forget it. It's hard to get anybody to listen to you. I mean, it is terribly difficult
to be on death row, an innocent man and charged
with a potentially heinous crime. [cameras clicking] How close did you come to being executed? Five days. We knew that he was innocent. But it's hard,
like he said, to convince people for people to listen to you. But we're just looking forward
to our family coming together again. [Renee]That was joyful tears
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How do you feel
about what happened here today?
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There was a little bit of animosity in my
heart toward everybody on this Earth
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for sending me to death row,
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but eventually I did find a reason
in my heart
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to forgive and forget it.
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It's hard to get anybody to listen to you.
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I mean, it is terribly difficult
to be on death row, an innocent man
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and charged
with a potentially heinous crime.
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[cameras clicking]
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How close did you come to being executed?
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Five days.
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We knew that he was innocent.
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But it's hard,
like he said, to convince people
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for people to listen to you.
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But we're just looking forward
to our family coming together again.
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[Renee]That was joyful tears.
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Movie Summary
The story of Ron Williamson, a man who sat on Oklahoma's death row for 11 years for a crime he didn't commit. Based on John Grisham's "The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town."