i m extremely sad for what i ve done. and i m not saying that to get out of an execution because like i said, i m ready. if you want to kill me, let s go. i m ready to go. i was 28 years old when i came to death row. you know, there s days i wake up in here and i m not too sure if i would want to live out my days, the rest of my days in of my life in prison. leif halvorsen is 51 now. well, i was convicted in fayette county, kentucky, 1983 of a triple homicide. i was convicted with mitchell willoughby who is also on death row with me. it grew out of an argument. there were drugs involved. we were both very high on several different mind-altering substances. like randy haight, halvorsen says he regrets what he did to his victims and the impact his crime had on his family.
the hardest thing i ever remember working through is my mother coming to the jail to see me the first time after i was arrested. and her whole soul was turned inside out. and, i mean, she sat there and just cried and cried. halvorsen lectures to groups of troubled teens brought to ksp as a way to deter them from lives of crime. and i tell these kids, you know, because a lot of children have this mentality that they re hero worshiping guys that are bad. and i m not a bad guy. i m a stupid, ignorant person for getting into the trouble that i did, but, you know, you can t do these kinds of things and ever feel good about it. until their sentences are overturned, death row inmates stay in confinement until they are put to death or die of natural causes. but for other inmates at this maximum security prison, good
i m extremely sad for what i ve done. and i m not saying that to get out of an execution because like i said, i m ready. if you want to kill me, let s go. i m ready to go. i was 28 years old when i came to death row. you know, there s days i wake up in here and i m not too sure if i would want to live out my days, the rest of my days in of my life in prison. leif halvorsen is 51 now. well, i was convicted in fayette county, kentucky, 1983 of a triple homicide. i was convicted with mitchell willoughby who is also on death row with me. it grew out of an argument. there were drugs involved. we were both very high on several different mind-altering substances. like randy haight, halvorsen says he regrets what he did to his victims and the impact his crime had on his family.
the hardest thing i ever remember working through is my mother coming to the jail to see me the first time after i was arrested. and her whole soul was turned inside out. and, i mean, she sat there and just cried and cried. halvorsen lectures to groups of troubled teens brought to ksp as a way to deter them from lives of crime. and i tell these kids, you know, because a lot of children have this mentality that they re hero worshiping guys that are bad. and i m not a bad guy. i m a stupid, ignorant person for getting into the trouble that i did, but, you know, you can t do these kinds of things and ever feel good about it. until their sentences are overturned, death row inmates stay in confinement until they are put to death or die of natural causes. but for other inmates at this