After 32 years in prison, I'm free – but I will continue blogging

After 32 years in prison, I'm free – but I will continue blogging

Killing another human is the grossest abuse of power. My urge to resist such abuses is a flower that lives in the mud of my crime

‘In writing about my situation in prison, I took a deliberate decision to insert myself into the public eye.’ Photograph: Charles O'Rear/Corbis

Unlike Nelson Mandela, I left prison today in relative obscurity and without a parade … but then I was guilty of a murder. That is an inescapable fact, that my future is always resting on the fact that I killed another human being.