Were crazy. they all went through my lifetime and spent a couple years looking at that. i just never saw it. can you give me example? you obviously didn t kill anybody. i m extremely manipulative. but i do it because i ve been successful. i grew up in a loving family. i always got what i wanted. i never had to lie, cheat, steal, any of that. it came easily. but the core thing is i manipulate people all the time. i m always on the make to create a world that you re going to believe in. but it s important for me to tell the truth. that s part of it. so the lying part, which a lot of psychopaths do, to me are cheap tricks. if you get everything you want, resort to manipulating people with the truth and other things. when you learned this about yourself, how did it affect you? you laughed it off initially, but as you pondered it and thought about it more and more, do you change? you re an adult and can t change
Started the fight. right. you approach me. and i take up my gun. i shoot you, and i feel threatened. i mean, that s my story afterwards. that s my story, and i m sticking to it. there is something wrong with that. and sticking to the story, both the zimmer case, which as you said stand your ground was part of the summations and the defense, and now this case, two very high profile cases, no conviction in either, you have a case of marissa alexander, same county as this case that we are dealing with now. and that prosecutor who you confronted by the way denied and fought for her having the right to use stand your ground. she is sentenced to 20 years. not only didn t kill anybody, doesn t even shoot anybody. shot a warning shot at her husband who had threatened her life and has a history of domestic violence.
I mean, deep inside i knew i didn t kill anybody. i felt like the state had who they re supposed to have. burn and go to hell! but what is right and what is wrong are two different things. and the right thing is that these three men are innocent. that s the right thing. and, yes, it was hard for me to stand up and admit that i was wrong. but wrong is wrong. that s a letter damien echols, po box 400, grady, arkansas. dear john, first i want to start off by apologizing to you. i know how it feels to be accused of something you didn t
and then when he flared off, then they were ready to say, well, okay, so he does have fire. when you got angry with the prosecutor, you said, you re a drop shot. i called him a drop shot. what s a drop shot? what does that mean? quite simply in our vernacular, a drop shot is a guy who is not worth much of anything. just drop him and shoot him and get him out of the way. in other words, you re useless. we reminded wayne he also called poor black children on the streets the same thing, drop shots. that does not make me a murderer simply because i said somebody was a drop shot or because i called him a drop shot. that does not make wayne williams a murderer because i said somebody is a street urchin. come on, we re talking about murder. the fact is, i didn t kill anybody. the jury didn t come back until late the second evening. the verdict, guilty on both counts of murdering the two adults, cater and payne.
Witness stand convicted him. and then when he flared off, then they were ready to say, well, okay, so he does have fire. when you got angry with the prosecutor, you said, you re a drop shot. i called him a drop shot. what s a drop shot? what does that mean? quite simply in our vernacular, a drop shot is a guy who is not worth much of anything. just drop him and shoot him and get him out of the way. in other words, you re useless. we reminded wayne he also called poor black children on the streets the same thing, drop shots. that does not make me a murderer simply because i said somebody was a drop shot or because i called him a drop shot. that does not make wayne williams a murderer because i said somebody is a street urchin. come on, we re talking about murder. the fact is, i didn t kill anybody. the jury didn t come back until late the second evening. the verdict, guilty on both counts of murdering the two