![]() ![]() Don’t try to talk to any white girls, she said. ![]() His mother sat him down and gave him a warning. In the beginning of the 1970s in Alabama, Hinton and his friends prepared to start attending a white school, after segregation had been abolished in the state. why Hinton chose to forgive rather than resent.how life on death row can erase ideological differences and.how Hinton escaped his cell without leaving it.In this summary of The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin, you’ll learn He felt deep compassion for his fellow inmates, discovered his own powerful imagination and, above all, maintained hope. Though he faced circumstances that would break most of us, Hinton found a kind of freedom, hope and life on death row. He had to suffer the indignity and psychological torture of solitary incarceration on death row until a tenacious lawyer fought for many years to secure his release. ![]() Poor and black, Hinton stood little chance of winning his initial trial, despite clear evidence pointing to his innocence. ![]() Hinton’s is a textbook case of a miscarriage of justice. He didn’t know that he’d spend 28 years on death row, watching fellow prisoners being led to the electric chair, which was located a mere 30 yards from his cell. What he didn’t know was that almost 30 years would pass before he regained his freedom. He wasn’t afraid when the police came to arrest him – because he knew he hadn’t committed a crime. In 1985, on a hot summer’s day in Alabama, Ray Hinton was mowing his mother’s lawn. ![]()
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