Friday, March 29, 2024

Innocent Man – Anthony Ray Hinton – Freed from Alabama Death Row After 30 Years

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*(Via Huffington Post) – Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, spent half his life on Alabama’s death row, sentenced to die for two 1985 murders that for decades he insisted he did not commit.

Over 28 years, the outside world changed while Hinton spent his days largely in a 5-by-8-foot prison cell. Children grew up. His mother died. His hair turned gray. Inmates he knew were escorted off to the electric chair or the lethal-injection gurney.

He was set free Friday after new ballistics tests contradicted the only evidence — an analysis of crime-scene bullets — that connected Hinton to the slayings.

“They had every intention of executing me for something I didn’t do,” Hinton said outside the Jefferson County Jail in Birmingham.

Read/learn MORE of this AP story at Huffington Post.

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