“In this accessible young readers’ adaptation of Hinton’s adult memoir, middle-grade readers will learn of Hinton’s wrongful conviction and deep flaws within the U.S. He now works at EJI as a Community Educator. With the help of civil rights attorney and bestselling author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, Mr.

For the next 27 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 realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but find a way to live on Death Row. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in agonizing silence-full of despair and anger toward all those who had sent an innocent man to his death.īut as Mr. Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free.īut with no money and a different system of justice for a poor Black man in the South, Mr. Stunned, confused, and only 29 years old, Mr. In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.

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