![]() ![]() ![]() With themes both timely and timeless, Hinton's memoir tells his dramatic 30-year journey and shows how you can take away a man's freedom, but you can't take away his imagination, humor, or joy. 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. But as 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 in despairing silence-angry and full of hatred for all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. ![]() Stunned, confused, and only 29 years old, 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 a criminal justice system with the cards stacked against Black men, Hinton was sentenced to death. But in emphasizing that it’s what a person does after their life changes that matters the most, Ray also hints at the value of optimism and. In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. From the outset of The Sun Does Shine, author Anthony Ray Hinton (who goes by Ray) foreshadows how being Black and poor in the South had a massive effect on how the criminal justice system treated him. The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times, now adapted for younger readers, with a revised foreword by Just Mercy author Bryan Stevenson. ![]() A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year ![]()
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