Books Details
Author : Anthony Ray Hinton Pages : 272 pages Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Language : eng ISBN-10 : 1250124719 ISBN-13 : 9781250124715
Books Descriptions
A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a
man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.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
