Vincent Simmons is an inmate in Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana who was sentenced to a hundred years for the rape of two teenage twins and has never wavered from his original claim of innocence. The rape victims, Karen and Sharon Sanders, insist that the right man has been convicted.
"People ask me to admit guilt and I know if I did my life might be easier, but I'm not admitting to what I didn't do. I may die here at Angola."
In his parole hearing which appeared in the The Farm: Life Inside Angola Simmons made reference to a number of documents that were left out of his original trial: a doctor's report stating that one of the girls was a virgin two weeks after the alleged incident, a photograph showing that Vincent was handcuffed at the time of the witness identification, and the original police interview in which the victims could not recall the name of the attacker. "I have a constitutional right to have my story told to the world and let the world know what happened. And that what happened has been a great injustice."
"People ask me to admit guilt and I know if I did my life might be easier, but I'm not admitting to what I didn't do. I may die here at Angola. And I ask you once, if I should die here... I'd like my body to be turned into ashes and just spread it in the universe. That's what I want to happen. If I die here, so will you make that happen?"
