Barbara Becnel Quotes

What Stan hopes this accomplishes is that it further strengthens the message of his work. He didn't want a movie that glorified gang violence. He wanted a movie that accurately and fairly depicted his redemption and his message for kids. - Barbara Becnel

We're definitely approaching the Texas model. We just had an execution a month ago. And I'll be back at San Quentin on Monday night [January 16], unless the Supreme Court intervenes, to protest the execution of Clarence Ray Allen. And then Michael Morales will be either next month or March. - Barbara Becnel

Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it is OK for a white district attorney to kick all of the minorities off of a jury. - Barbara Becnel

Today is a shameful day in the history of American jurisprudence... Today the U.S. Supreme Court has said in its ruling essentially that it is OK for a white prosecutor to kick all of the African Americans off of a jury. - Barbara Becnel

Then they tried to get me to convince him to do it. I wouldn't and he wouldn'tand he's dead. And Arnold Schwarzenegger used that against him to justify his execution. But Stan proved that the most wretched of our society can be redeemed. - Barbara Becnel

The young people to whom he speaks have no hope. What Stan presents is hope that they too can change. He is worth far more to society alive than dead. - Barbara Becnel

Once he was dead and we were waiting to leave, I whispered to another friend, 'Let's say the State of California just killed an innocent man.' When we got to the last step, we shouted it out. - Barbara Becnel

If they think they succeeded by killing him in getting people to forget about him, they have done just the opposite. - Barbara Becnel

His story is not ending here. - Barbara Becnel

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