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CourtTVnews.com reporter Emanuella Grinberg interviewed Texas death row inmate Johnathan Moore on Jan. 10 at the Polunsky Prison Unit in Livingston, Texas. He was executed Jan. 17. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. The video was produced by Mark Grieco.

COURTTVNEWS.COM: Can you describe a typical day on death row?

JOHNATHAN MOORE: Monotonous. I'm sure that's the answer everyone gives you guys. Just droning, same day every day, it's "Groundhog Day" here, the movie. It's hard to decipher the separate days.

CTV: How are you doing today?

MOORE: Pretty good, pretty good, really good, actually.

CTV: What makes this day so good?

MOORE: Just in general, I know how to live life and feel good about things.

CTV: What do you do to pass the time?

MOORE: Read, write, do some running. I run a lot. You have different little societies in here, groups of friends, and you got different stuff to do, play games, stuff like that.

CTV: What kind of writing do you do?

MOORE: Just pen-pal letters to my friends and stuff.

CTV: Do you write poetry or anything like that?

MOORE: Not so much anymore. I used to, but I got out of it.

CTV: Why?

MOORE: Everybody's doing that in here. I just don't feel like it.

CTV: You said you talk with the other inmates. Are you friends with any of them?

MOORE: A couple. In prison, there's always shifting loyalties. It's a never-ending chess game in here when you're dealing with people. That's why you got to look into yourself and do your own time.

CTV: Where do you fit in?

MOORE: You're playing a chess game and everybody else is playing their pieces against you, so I mean, it's never-ending because no one ever wins. I don't know, it deals with the personalities and stuff you got in here because there's some extreme personalities in here and people are just trying to get along, and some people want to do other people's time.