Anthony Ray Hinton
Author, speaker and activist
Anthony Ray Hinton is an American author and activist who was wrongly convicted of murder and freed from Alabama's death row in 2015. He wrote the memoir The Sun Does Shine.
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American Born 1956 in Alabama, United States
About Anthony Ray Hinton
Anthony Ray Hinton was wrongly convicted of murdering two fast food restaurant managers in Birmingham, Alabama, and was sentenced to death. He spent decades on death row. After the US Supreme Court ruled in his favour, the charges were dropped and he was released in April 2015. Hinton later wrote the memoir The Sun Does Shine, published in 2018. The actor O'Shea Jackson Jr. played him in the 2019 film Just Mercy. He now speaks about prison reform, faith and forgiveness, and lives in Alabama.