And for 15 long years, I was married to (actress) Halle Berry.”Ī sustained chorus of laughter rewarded Hinton’s humor. “I knew I could not do it physically, but mentally I wanted to be free. “I asked God to give me the ability to escape this place,” said Hinton. That moment of compassion struck a transformative chord with Hinton, helping him reclaim his humanity. In response to Hinton asking if he could help in some way, the man said his mother had died. Going into the fourth year, Hinton heard a fellow prisoner weeping in a nearby cell. “For three years, I never said a word to anyone.”
“Where was the God I loved so much,” he recalled thinking. On the day the prison gates shut with him inside, Hinton was angry with God for allowing it to happen. “The sun does shine” was Hinton’s declaration the day he was released to the arms of cheering family and friends. His best-selling book details Hinton’s first days on death row, how he got through decades of solitary confinement, and his triumphant release into the arms of cheering family and friends. “After I was convicted and court adjourned, I heard the prosecutor say, ‘Well, we didn’t get the right n****r today, but at least we got another n****r off the street.’” “When I proclaimed my innocence, one of the detectives who came to arrest me said, ‘I really don’t care whether you did or didn’t do it, but I’m going to make sure you are found guilty,” said Hinton. It chronicled Hinton’s hopeful and sometimes heartbreaking road to exoneration. Hinton, 66, was featured in a presentation sponsored by the museum, the Tennessee Innocence Project and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Fight for the poor who can’t afford adequate representation.”Īnd, said Hinton, “All of us must join the fight to bring an end to the death penalty.” “Now seven years after my release, 196 men and women have been exonerated from death row,” said Hinton, the best-selling author of “The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row.” “My conviction on two counts of capital murder had everything to do with race and class,” Hinton, 66, told an audience of 100-plus at the National Civil Rights Museum on Thursday night. The story is Hinton’s story, including the emotion-triggering account of the racial animus that punctuated the process that sent him to death row. Easley/The New Tri-State Defender)Īnthony Ray Hinton knows of a story so disturbingly real that it drives him to ask strangers to help him end the use of the death penalty in the U.S. Anthony Ray Hinton - the best-selling author of “The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row” - sees a role for all in eliminating the use of the death penalty.
0 kommentar(er)
