Trial by Fire (I) (2018)

McKinley Belcher III: Ponchai

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Quotes 

• Ponchai : [on a common quote]  You Know What They Say About Capital Punishment... If You Ain't Got No Capital...

  Cameron Todd Willingham : [finishing the quote]  ... Gotta Take The Punishment

• Ponchai : [on being on death row]  I'm here because to them I'm just black... your here because to them your just poor and dumb

  Cameron Todd Willingham : [bluntly]  Can't I be poor and smart?

• Ponchai : [on why he's on death row]  Elderly white clerk reached for something under the counter

  [with regret] 

  Ponchai : I put a bullet in his head

  [incredulous] 

  Ponchai : Didn't matter I was high as FUCK

  [snorts in disgust] 

  Ponchai : I should've been guilty of intentional manslaughter... AT THE MOST

  Ponchai : [on the states' view on execution]  You know capital punishment's always been a political tool... during an election year they put to death twice as many of those on death row than they normally do