On the eve of the defense calling witnesses in the penalty phase of the case against Lawrence Stinnett, we sat down with him to talk about the brutal death of his former girlfriend Christina Renshaw.

With a possible death sentence in his future, Stinnett talked about God, his convictions and what he wants to say to the Renshaw family.

"If the death penalty is in my fate, then that's God's answer for me and of course I'm ready to face that," said Stinnett, during a one-on-one interview inside the Warren County Regional Jail.

It would be the harshest sentence a jury could hand down, but it's one Lawrence Stinnett will accept.

"Heck man, I started dying the day this happened. It's not about living or dying, it's about living with something like this," he said.

For four years, Stinnett has sat behind bars in the jail.

But just last week, a jury found Stinnett guilty of kidnapping and killing former girlfriend Christina Renshaw.

"If it were me and something like that had happened with my daughter or my sister, and looking at it in that view, it's possible I would've gone the same way," he said.

With no formal training, Stinnett served as his own attorney during his trial and that's a move he says he doesn't regret.

"I had to bring up things that I wanted to know of, things that I have to live with and make sure without a doubt that I was the cause of this woman to die."

Stinnett admits to being an abnormally jealous person.

It's a characteristic that brought him eleven hours from Oklahoma City to Renshaw's apartment in Bowling Green to confront her about an alleged affair.

"I can't accept that in my heart that I intended for her to die," he said. "And then maybe I don't know. Maybe there's a facet of a human being's life that I went to, maybe I'm in denial and I don't see that."

But Stinnett makes no excuses for what he did and plans to face Christina Renshaw's family for it.

He says that will be one of the hardest parts of it all.

"I can't go to my grave or live with myself without facing those people and telling them how sorry I am for that. Those people have a hatred for me and you can't blame them."

Stinnett says his public defenders now have control of his case.

And on Wednesday for the first time, Stinnett says he will take the witness stand.