Herman Lindsey was sentenced to death in 2006 for a 1994 murder-robbery – a crime he did not commit. Now he has opened up about his harrowing personal experience
A former death row inmate has opened up about his harrowing experience and revealed the disturbing thing he says inmates saw whenever there was an execution.
Herman Lindsey was sentenced to death in 2006 for a 1994 murder-robbery – a crime he did not commit.
Thankfully, his conviction would be overturned three years later, and now he has shared what it was like to live as an innocent man on death row. It comes after a man claimed ‘I died for seven minutes in hospital – here’s exactly what I saw on the other side’.
Lindsey said that during his time behind bars in Florida State Prison, he and his fellow death row inmates would experience paranormal activity whenever an execution was taking place.
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“On the night of someone being executed, you will see a spirit walk down the hallway,” he told the Daily Mail, adding that it was not a hallucination and that he wasn’t the only person to witness it.
“That is something that’s not a tale. The majority of people on Death Row will tell you they have seen it themselves.”
Lindsey further explained that many inmates believe the ghostly apparition belongs to an executed inmate. He said that it has been attributed to an inmate who passed away several years ago, and that it would always appear before an inmate was scheduled to have their sentence carried out.
Despite scepticism, the father-of-seven remains adamant that he witnessed ghostly apparitions while he was incarcerated.
“You can’t be hallucinating when you got 12 other people seeing the same thing that you’re seeing,” he added. “That is virtually impossible, and that’s what made me believe in spirits because you actually see it.”
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It comes after a former death row worker revealed the worst thing he ever experienced on the job.
Death penalty opponent Bill Breeden served as a spiritual advisor to inmates on death row, and witnessed his first live execution in 2021.
The 74-year-old was working as a Unitarian Universalist minister when Corey Johnson, a prisoner at Terre Haute penitentiary in Indiana, stepped up to the electric chair. Johnson was responsible for the murders of seven people in 1992 and had been in solitary confinement for his crimes for nearly 30 years.
Breeden told The Times: “He couldn’t read or write, but he was just an amazing man. He was called the gentle giant by everyone on death row because nobody had heard him raise his voice.”
The shock came when “the victims’ family, as soon as his death was announced, stood up and they were cheering like at a football game”.
“It was grotesque,” he recalled, adding: “But in the perpetrator’s room was Corey’s family, who’d not seen him in 29 years.
“I’d raised $7,000 to bring his family to see him and his brother just stood up and started screaming ‘I love you, bro’ over and over as Corey died. It was the worst thing I’ve ever experienced.”
