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The sun does shine : how I found life and freedom on death row

Hinton, Anthony Ray (author.). Hardin, Lara Love, (author.). Stevenson, Bryan, (writer of foreword.).

Summary: 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 find a way to live on Death Row. For the next twenty-seven years he was a beacon, transforming not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, fifty-four of whom were executed mere feet from his cell. With the help of civil rights attorney and author Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015. Hinton's memoir tells his dramatic thirty-year journey and shows how you can take away a man's freedom, but you can't take away his imagination, humor, or joy.

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  • ISBN: 1250124719
  • ISBN: 9781250124715
  • Physical Description: xii, 269 pages ; 25 cm.
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  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, [2018]
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    • Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 4 / 5.0

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General Note:
Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 selection.
Formatted Contents Note: Capital offense -- All American -- A two-year test drive -- The cooler killer -- Premeditated guilt -- The whole truth -- Conviction, conviction, conviction -- Keep your mouth shut -- On appeal -- The death squad -- Waiting to die -- The Queen of England -- No monsters -- Love is a foreign language -- Go tell it on the mountain -- Shakedown -- God's best lawyer -- Testing the bullets -- Empty chairs -- Dissent -- They kill you on Thursdays -- Justice for all -- The sun does shine -- Bang on the bars -- Afterword: Pray for them by name.

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Death row inmates United States
Discrimination in capital punishment United States
Compensation for judicial error United States
Crime and race Southern States
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Mistaken identity
Compensation for judicial error United States
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Genre: Autobiographies.

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  • 55 of 68 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 7 current holds with 68 total copies.
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Abington Community Library 364.6609 HINTON (Text) 50687011579391 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library 364.6609 HINTON (Text) 50686015315364 Storage Available -
Albright Memorial Library 364.6609 HINTON (Text) 50686015355279 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 364.66 HIN (Text) 33240004876382 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Boone Area Library 364.66 HIN (Text) 33249022841658 Non-fiction On Holds Shelf -
Cambria County Library 364.66 H666s (Text) 85131001603480 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Dalton Community Library 364.66 HINTON (Text) 50689010419603 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults Hinton Biography (Text) 34001001338050 Adult Area Available -
Dover Area Community Library Adults 364.66 HIN Nonfiction (Text) 34217000780676 Adult Area Available -
Elkland Area Community Library 364.6 HI (Text) 30363000781688 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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