Live! From Death Row (1992 TV Movie)

Calvin Levels: Kenny Nevins

Quotes 

• Alana Powers : Hi Kenny, you mind if I call you Kenny?

  Kenny Nevins : Yeah, uh, you think my mom was watching?

  Alana Powers : She's concerned about you, I'm sure she's watching.

  Laurence Dvorak : Ask him how old he is.

  Alana Powers : How old are you?

  Kenny Nevins : I'm 26 last July, guess I won't make 27.

  Laurence Dvorak : Ask him how old he was when he got here.

  Alana Powers : You know, a good producer lets his people do their job, Mr. Dvorak, if you want to do the interview, you go right ahead, I'll watch.

  Laurence Dvorak : Oh sorry, I overstepped my bounds here didn't I? Yeah please, proceed Miss Powers.

  Alana Powers : Now you were convicted when you were 15 and tried as an adult, is that correct?

  Kenny Nevins : Yeah, because of what they said I did.

  Alana Powers : Tell us what happened.

  Kenny Nevins : Well, Pepper Michaels, he was a kid from my block, he's here too, only he's in lockup cuz he had a better lawyer than me. Pepper and me was high and stoned, you know, and we wanted some munchies, but we didn't have no money, and the fella behind the counter, he wouldn't give us no credit, you know, all I wanted was some munchies.

  Alana Powers : He wouldn't give you any credit so you killed him?

  Kenny Nevins : The fella got all chopped up, but I knew him. Ozzie. He kept this uh, meat cleaver right behind the meat counter. He got chopped up with his own cleaver.

  Alana Powers : And you did it?

  Kenny Nevins : Guess so.

  Alana Powers : And now you want to die.

  Kenny Nevins : [nods]  Yeah.

  Alana Powers : Why? Why, Kenny? You still have an appeal pending, don't you?

  Kenny Nevins : [sighs]  Suppose my appeal goes through, and look, I ain't never gonna see those streets again except as an old man. I mean my appeal goes through, yeah, yeah, I might get bumped off the row, life in the lockup. Life in the lockup, man, a guy like me, hey, I won't last 2 seconds in there, I'm fresh meat to those guys. You got a choice, man, 20 years in the lockup, or dead.

  [tears up] 

  Kenny Nevins : Which would you choose, ma'am? I'd rather be dead.