Mat Prountzos, who lives in Liverpool, writes 10-page letters to an inmate on death row in California, every week.
‘I really felt for the people on death row so yeah, I started writing,’ Mat said. ‘I started to get letters back and well, it developed from there.’
‘It’s kind of a really sick game that’s being played, with thousands of people on death row. Is it really working? Is it a deterrent?’ Mat said if he’s ever challenged over his decision to write to prisoners who are convicted murderers, ‘people are entitled to their opinion of “lock away the key”‘. ‘I think hope and trust is the thing, and with a lot of people there is neither of them – and when you lose those, you’re a very dangerous individual.’
‘My view is you’re writing to them, and why they’re there is not your business,’ the 68-year-old tells Metro.co.uk. ‘Though we’ve never physically met, after a number of years we managed to get a phone call, and he’s perfectly articulate.’ San Quentin’s capital punishment lethal injection facility in California, where there is currently a moratorium on the death penalty
While Twin was on death row she went in to hospital for a major operation. When she returned home she received a get well card signed by everyone on that state’s death row of around 40 people. Rosemary explained: ‘He was invigilated by the education officer sitting outside his cell on death row and got his school exams – although later than most!The letters I received were quite unlike anything I expected from death row
‘There are some who are actively against the death penalty, but I think the predominant thing is probably compassion, because of the awful predicament these people are in.He said he truly believes the majority of people are on death row because they’ve been ‘dealt a lousy hand in life’, adding, ‘Many of them got sentenced at a pretty young age for some misdemeanour carried out in their late teens or early twenties.
In 96% of states where there have been reviews of race and the death penalty, there was a pattern of either race-of-victim or race-of-defendant discrimination, or both
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