![]() ![]() With a foreword by Stevenson, The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times. With the help of civil rights attorney and bestselling author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015. For the next twenty-seven years he was a beacon-transforming not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, 54 of whom were executed mere feet from his cell. ![]() ![]() Hinton spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in agonizing silence-despairing and angry at all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. But as Hinton recovered and challenged his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but to find a way to live on Death Row. Unfortunately, what Hinton’s memoir, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, shows is that without money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, he was sentenced to death by electrocution. He believed the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. Stunned, confused, and only 29 years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity. In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Anthony Ray Hinton and his coauthor Lara Love Hardin for a discussion and signing of Hinton's powerful memoir, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row-an Oprah Book Club selection. ![]()
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