Alabama Death Row Inmate, Anthony Ray Hinton, Freed After 30 Years
Alabama Death Row Inmate, Anthony Ray Hinton, Freed After 30 Years Alabama Death Row Inmate, Anthony Ray Hinton, Freed After 30 Years Alabama Death Row Inmate, Anthony Ray Hinton, Freed After 30 Years A man who spent nearly 30 years on Alabama’s death row has been freed following a decades-long fight to prove his innocence. Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, was released on Friday from an Alabama prison. He hugged family members as he walked out, saying: “Thank you Jesus.” Hinton was convicted of the 1985 murders of two Birmingham fast-food restaurant managers. Crime scene bullets were the only evidence linking Hinton to the slayings. However, prosecutors said new testing failed to show any of the bullets came from a revolver found in Hinton’s home, or even the same gun. “Every day, every month, every year that the state took from him, they took something that they don’t have the power to give back. While this moment is quite joyous and is quite wonderful, this case is quite tragic,” Bryan Stevenson, Hinton’s attorney and director of the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, said on Thursday.
- published: 03 Apr 2015
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http://wn.com/Alabama_Death_Row_Inmate,_Anthony_Ray_Hinton,_Freed_After_30_Years Alabama Death Row Inmate, Anthony Ray Hinton, Freed After 30 Years Alabama Death Row Inmate, Anthony Ray Hinton, Freed After 30 Years Alabama Death Row Inmate, Anthony Ray Hinton, Freed After 30 Years A man who spent nearly 30 years on Alabama’s death row has been freed following a decades-long fight to prove his innocence. Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, was released on Friday from an Alabama prison. He hugged family members as he walked out, saying: “Thank you Jesus.” Hinton was convicted of the 1985 murders of two Birmingham fast-food restaurant managers. Crime scene bullets were the only evidence linking Hinton to the slayings. However, prosecutors said new testing failed to show any of the bullets came from a revolver found in Hinton’s home, or even the same gun. “Every day, every month, every year that the state took from him, they took something that they don’t have the power to give back. While this moment is quite joyous and is quite wonderful, this case is quite tragic,” Bryan Stevenson, Hinton’s attorney and director of the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, said on Thursday.
- published: 03 Apr 2015
- views: 3292