The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Author: Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin
Genre: Memoir
Publication Date: 2018
Introduction
Published in 2018, The Sun Does Shine is Anthony Ray Hinton’s memoir of the nearly 30 years he spent on Alabama’s death row for a crime he never committed. The memoir covers Hinton’s incarceration and legal battle to reverse his conviction. It also covers Hinton’s spiritual journey, in which he struggled with anger, depression, and lost and regained faith. Despite the bleak conditions of death row, Hinton found support from friends and family, particularly from his mother and from his best friend, Lester Bailey, and built as good a life for himself as he could. Thanks to the tireless work of his attorney and friend Bryan Stevenson, Hinton was exonerated by the US Supreme Court and set free.
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