By Meghan Keneally and Nina Golgowski Last updated at 11:47 PM on 27th January 2012 The family of a death row inmate who sent a letter to a local North Carolina newspaper boasting about his 'life of leisure' behind bars says the convicted murderer is mentally ill and fabricating his living conditions and they offered another letter as proof. Danny Hembree, Jr.'s sister released a letter sent to her from her brother earlier this month that contradicts the recently published two-page boast of leisurely conditions behind bars, disturbing the family of his 17-year-old murder victim. 'I try to put on a (nonchalant) attitude for you guys but it is overwhelming and depressing to look at these walls and electric doors and bright lights 24-7 and digest the fact that I'm never going to leave here until they murder me or I just die either way I'm never leaving here alive,' he wrote in the letter dated January 8 and published by the Charlotte Observer.
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Danny Hembree, 50, on death row for murder of a 17-year-old girl
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Also the main suspect in the murders of two other women
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Earlier Hembree sent an open letter boasting of prison life with color television, air conditioning, naps whenever he pleases, and free health care
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