Live! From Death Row (1992 TV Movie)

Kathleen Wilhoite: Lorraine

Quotes 

• Alana Powers : What are you doing with that psychopath?

  Lorraine : I want to die.

  Alana Powers : Why?

  Lorraine : Why not? I'm gonna die anyway, and I'm waiting, the waiting is driving me around the bend. They tell you you're gonna die, the jury tells you, the judge, the warden, but then you wait, is a part of the punishment the waiting? I've been here for three years.

  Alana Powers : But you filed the appeals.

  Lorraine : No I didn't, they filed them for me: the do-gooders, this way, I pick the time and I get it over with, finally, as I just deserve to die, it's justice, and I accept it, so let's do it.

  Alana Powers : I think our audience can understand the grief and pain you were going through when your husband left you...

  Lorraine : No they can't.

  Alana Powers : You helped your husband start a very successful plumbing business, you sacrificed, you loved him I'm sure, but to murder your own two children in front of him...

  Lorraine : He was gonna take them away from me. *My* little babies.

  Alana Powers : But women go through marital crises every day and they don't...

  Lorraine : Just let me die, please.

  Alana Powers : I'm trying to understand how you could kill your own children. I want the audience to try and see how a woman can do this.

  Laurence Dvorak : This is an interesting question here: now was Lorraine Viela sane when she killed her children?

  Lorraine : I wasn't crazy, I knew what I was doing.

  Laurence Dvorak : Well, even the societal taboos against murder, especially infanticide, and knowing the full consequences, how can anyone in their right mind commit murder? I mean you'd have to be crazy, and if you are crazy, according to this system of jurisprudence, you can't be found guilty, that's a paradox.

  Lorraine : I did it. I am not crazy, and I want to die.