![]() With a foreword by Stevenson, The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times. ![]() With the help of civil rights attorney and bestselling author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015. ![]() For the next twenty-seven years he was a beacon-transforming not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, 54 of whom were executed mere feet from his cell. But as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but find a way to live on Death Row. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in despairing silence-angry and full of hatred for all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. Stunned, confused, and only 29 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.īut with an incompetent defense attorney and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. ![]() In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. ![]() A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. ![]()
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