"Eugene was condemned to death for murder in May 1991 during a slapdash lawsuit. The police did not find his prints on the crime scene, the two witnesses likely to prove he is innocent are runaways, and his officially appointed lawyer appeared unable to ensure his defence. Everything leads us to believe that Eugene was condemned arbitrarily, as this precision in the report of his judgment : "black Race, dangerous for the society". Locked up 23 hours a day in his cell, deprived of television and access to Internet, any intimacy isn't possible for the prisoners of Livingston's death row [...] Their only bond with the outside world is the radio and the letters that they can exchange with their correspondents, for those who have the chance to have one. Confinement gave Eugene many health problems : He became diabetic and arthritic, but he does not have the correct cares. His wife, a Frenchwoman who married him in the death row, asked the court law to buy the drugs herself, but her petition was refused ! Only the threat to ask for the opening of an internal investigation for non-assistance to someone in danger was effective, and gave him his medicines. Last June, Eugene's new appeal was rejected. His wife is trying to sensitize the opinion on his case, through an Internet site currently in construction. The objective in the long term is to gather funds in order to remunerate a lawyer who could prove his innocence."

Patrick Le Hyaric, head of L'Humanité and Michel Taube, director of EPCM (Ensemble contre la peine de mort, "together against death penalty") chose together a sentence by Jean Jaures (a French left wing politician from the early 20th century and creator of L'Humanité) in 1908 to illustrate their feelings : "the death penalty is opposed to human's higher thoughts and nobler dreams."