NC killer's letter calls death row 'overwhelming' (the "Kill me if you can, suckers." guy)

[The Straight Story]

NC killer's letter calls death row 'overwhelming'

RALEIGH, N.C.—A convicted North Carolina killer who painted a picture of himself living the high life on death row in a letter to a newspaper tells a different story to family members, describing his life behind bars as "overwhelming" and "depressing," according to a letter made public Thursday.

Kathy Hembree Ledbetter released the letter by her brother, Danny, because she said it reflects his emotional state better than the taunting missive he sent to The Gaston Gazette, which published it on Tuesday.

In that letter, Hembree boasted of being a "gentleman of leisure" watching color TV and taking frequent naps, and wrote, "Kill me if you can, suckers."

But in the letter to Ledbetter, dated Jan. 8, Hembree writes of his despair at the prospect of either execution or spending the rest of his life in prison, and wonders whether God cares about him.

"I want this stuff to be over for good once and for all," Hembree wrote. "I try to put on a nonchalant attitude for you guys, but it is overwhelming and depressing to look at these at these walls and electric doors and bright lights 24-7 and digest the fact that I'm never going to leave here until they murder me or I just die."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2012/01/26/nc_killers_letter_calls_death_row_overwhelming/

[BlueToTheBone]

1. But no one word of remorse for the reasons

that led him to that depressing place.

Perhaps more time and he will be able to reflect on the actions rather than his own victim-hood.

[piedmont]

2. "...it is overwhelming and depressing to look at these at these walls and electric doors...

and bright lights 24-7 and digest the fact that I'm never going to leave here until they murder me or I just die."


GOOD!