T.O.H.P. Burnham Free Library (Essex)

The sun does shine, Anthony Ray Hinton ; with Lara Love Hardin

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Anthony Ray Hinton ; with Lara Love Hardin

"In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years on death row at Holman State Prison in agonizing silence, full of despair and anger toward all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. But as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but to find a way to live on death row. For the next twenty-seven years he was a beacon, transforming his own spirit and those of his fellow inmates, fifty-four of whom were executed mere feet from his cell. He founded a prison book group, which helped its members to talk about their own lives, regrets, and ideas. With the help of Bryan Stevenson, civil rights attorney and author of Just Mercy, Hinton won his release in 2015."--, Provided by publisher

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