Prison Radio
Mumia Abu-Jamal

You – you ever hear the story of how that happened? Well, in France, under Robespierre, they would walk by the cells and make a chalk mark on the door of the people to be beheaded the next morning. They walked by Tom Paine’s cell and they put the check mark, but because his door was open it was made in the—you know—the crease where the door is. In the morning his door was closed so the check mark was invisible. It was just, it was just chance, just chance.