12 Fascinating Interviews with a California Death Row Inmate

My Life Began on Death Row - an invitation to understand the life and character of Pete….

Pete attended one of the last of the one-room schools, where children of all grades received instruction from a single teacher.

Pete learned to labor young, imbibing a deeply agrarian mind frame as daily life modernized.

He played and grew up with Native American children, learned from their fathers, and experienced day-to-day living within a Native American community.

Later, while on death row, Pete entered into the confidence and acceptance of a Native American family and became the blood brother of Clarence Ray Allen, aka Running Bear, the last man executed by the State of California some 14 years ago.

For over 40 years as an incarcerated man, Pete has witnessed the California prison system’s continual change and political nature.

Pete knows the drug world having been introduced to narcotics in a war for Pete was an active soldier in the Vietnam conflict, even during the infamous 1968 Tet Offensive.

Pete underwent extreme and perverse abuse at the hands of his parents and violent bullying as a youth.

Finally, Pete received a death row sentence, death row, being where his life began.