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Into the Abyss Page #6
until I got here...
what happened
if I would've fell out
and got eaten by an alligator?
Who would've been responsible?
You know, did my parents sign
some type of waiver?
Because there was
alligators everywhere.
- Well, a young man of 13,
and... and handle
the alligators well, yes.
- Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
- But what happened then?
You didn't...
- Well, I think it was on
nighttime and pull in.
I guess they had certain
designations marked,
and sometimes we'd pull in,
like, at midnight.
There's bugs... you can reach out
and grab a handful of bugs,
and then they'd want us
to cook dinner,
and, you know, I'm like,
"Man, I can't."
And one of the things
of the program was
to teach you immediate...
you know, every action
there's a... there's a reaction,
so immediate consequences
to your decisions,
and one of the things
I learned is that
if I don't pay attention
to the lessons...
we had these bags
for our property,
and you had to seal them right,
or they wouldn't be waterproof.
Well, I didn't listen,
and it fell in the water,
and all my stuff got wet,
so I didn't have my own tent.
I didn't have no
toilet paper any more,
and I didn't like that.
So basically, I... I was
and I told them, "You know what?"
I ain't doing this no more.
Take me home."
- But you were not attacked
by alligators, but...
- No, we were attacked
by monkeys, though.
- By monkeys.
What happened?
- Absolutely, monkeys
were jumping from one side
to the trees
on the side we were at
and come... trying
to come over there,
and they couldn't figure out
where the monkeys came from,
but there was
a whole bunch.
I wanted to get out
and get one,
but they said
they have diseases, right?
- So best... case scenario,
if you are granted parole
in 2041,
how old would you be then?
Does this ever occur to you?
Do you want to think about it?
- I'll be 59, 60.
I was 19.
I have to do 40 years from 19,
which will be 59 years old.
Long time.
- When it came to the phase
after your trial was over,
for punishment phase,
your father showed up in court.
Can you describe the scene?
- I knew he was coming,
and I knew what he was gonna
testify to,
but to hear him testify,
it's like...
I was born with neuroblastomas.
I... I had 18 surgeries
by the time I was five,
and I... I don't know
a lot about it
because it's something
that I try to shy away from.
I knew he was gonna testify
to my raising,
and I was a...
in pain all the time,
and he'd watch me cry to sleep,
and...
It was difficult,
because I seen him cry.
I mean, if you ever see my dad,
he's 6'6 ", 6'7", 300 pounds,
big old guy, tattooed.
- And they brought him
in from... from prison.
- He came in from prison.
- Is he still incarcerated?
- He's right across the street
on Ellis Unit.
- Mr. Burkett,
how are you doing?
- Just... I'm doing fine.
Doing fine.
Little sick.
- How fine?
- Little bit sick.
- Mm-hmm.
You are in here
for how many years?
- 40.
- 40 years.
- Yes, sir.
is that correct?
- Yes, sir.
- That's pretty serious.
- Yes, sir.
- And you spent some time before
this 40 year sentence in jail.
Is that correct?
- Yes, sir.
- Yeah.
- I've been in prison
five times.
- How many years already?
- A 2 year sentence,
a 5 year sentence,
a 30 year sentence,
and then this 40.
- That's a lot.
- Yes, sir.
- What went wrong?
- Drugs and alcohol.
- Can you explain?
when I was about 13,
drinking and drugging,
and, uh...
Selling and manufacturing.
Some stealing and burglarizing
going along with it
to sup... support the habit
and always end up
back in prison.
- There's one significant moment
when Jason, your son,
was found guilty
for capital murder...
- Yes.
- And triple homicide.
During the sentencing phase,
you appeared in court.
Can you describe what you said
to the jury?
- Well...
I explained to 'em
what prison life was about,
and I explained...
I explained to 'em
that I didn't think killing him
people or really, you know,
do anything to correct
what happened,
and I asked
the jury to, you know,
"Please, you know,
don't kill my son."
I asked 'em.
I said just,
"Please, don't kill my son."
He never had a chance.
He didn't have a father.
I told 'em that, you know,
he did... I was never there,
and his mother was a, you know,
single mother
with four children,
and... and she had handicaps.
She... she's on disability.
Most of that time,
she was living on disability,
and so they...
they really didn't...
they lived off food stamps,
and, you know, HUD housing
and that type of thing,
and... and he...
he really...
he really had a real poor life
growing up.
I just asked 'em
not to kill my son.
It wasn't his fault.
I... it... I wished I could...
I wish that I could
take the time, his time.
I wish I could, 'cause I feel
like that it's my fault.
I... I... really do.
I feel like it's...
I'm as much at fault as he is,
'cause if I'd have been there,
it, quite possibly, maybe not,
but... but it might possibly
have been different.
He'd have had a better chance.
You know, he'd have
if I'd have been there
but I wasn't.
The jury got up to leave,
and the door was right here
to my right,
and as the door closed
behind them,
I heard two ladies break down.
I'm... I'm real emotional,
and I'm crying
through the whole thing,
but as they went through
that door, and the door closed,
I heard two ladies
break down crying.
They broke down,
and then the...
when it... it was all over
and his lawyer come told me,
he said...
I remember the... his words.
He said, "You got him."
- You saved a life.
- He said... he said,
"You got him."
I said,
"What do you mean?"
He said, "You got him."
And that's where I...
that's what saved...
there was two votes.
It was ten to two,
and there was two votes
that voted not to kill him,
two ladies right there that...
they're the ones
that saved his life.
- But you can be proud
of this moment.
- Yeah.
I had some help too.
God helped me.
He did.
I asked God to help me,
and I think He did.
I didn't deserve
any help for him.
He may not deserve the help,
but we got it
from some place, so...
- The hardest part
was to look at him
and for him to look at me,
and I seen that he was sincere,
you know,
what he had done throughout
my whole childhood,
and he had been in prison.
I don't blame him for it,
but I seen right there
that he understood
that it did affect us,
and I cried that one day,
that was it, through the...
the whole trial.
Even after conviction,
the only thing that hurt me
was my... my dad testifying.
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