James Ringo McDaniel
                Death Row, Georgia
    
Hello my name is James Ringo McDaniel and I have been on death row since June of '97.  I wasn't suppose to be on death row, but a judge here in Georgia lied to me and I was sent here anyway.  It began with a terrible mistake I made in 1994 which I am truly sorry I made.  I took the life of three people and I have since then been in continuos contact with the victims families and they have
forgiven me for what I have done and I have asked God to forgive me and I truly feel that he has done so.  But Bilson Smith the Judge over my case told me and my lawyers that he is 90% sure that he would impose a sentence of life without parole and not sentence me to death if I were to plead guilty.  Well I pleaded guilty and received a death sentence.  I feel like I was lied to as well as my
lawyers concerning the sentencing.  I have since then had my case overturned or reversed but the damage has still been done.  I've lost the relationship I had with family members and basically I have no one in my corner I can talk to or help me when I still need all the help I can get.  I'm looking for someone who I can truly call a friend and someone who can help me through this very hard time.  Even though I may have to spend the remainder of my life in prison there is alot of goals I want to accomplish.  Such as taking college courses and getting a degree in culinary arts.  Even though I am incarcerated my mind isn't.  If a can find a true friend who doesn't mind helping a person that has nothing out financially, I would more than appreciate it.  I need someone I can truly depend on and whom is willing to take a chance.

I will send a picture when I am able to pay for one.

                     James Ringo McDaniel
                        EF# 377372 G-1-29
                                G.D.C.P.
                            P.O. Box 3877
                        Jackson, GA 30233


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This page was last updated May 20, 2002                  Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty
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