Alabama Inmate Free After 30 Years On Death Row. How The Case Against Him Unraveled.

[Purveyor]

Source: Washington Post

By Abby Phillip April 3 at 1:01 PM

Anthony Ray Hinton was one of Alabama’s longest-serving death row inmates, having spent more than half his life incarcerated. Now, after three decades of insisting that he is innocent in the 1985 murders of two men, the 58-year-old Hinton is finally a free man.

“The sun does shine,” Hinton said just after his release from jail on Friday, according to AL.com.

His freedom came down to the same four bullets that put him in jail to begin with.

“I shouldn’t have (sat) on death row for 30 years,” he told reporters according to CNN. “All they had to do was to test the gun.” He added: “Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.”


Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/03/how-the-case-against-anthony-hinton-on-death-row-for-30-years-unraveled/

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

1. Justice delayed...

and delayed and delayed. sigh

So glad this man is finally free!

[cosmicone]

2. No justice in backwoods, hick red states. n/t

[demosincebirth]

3. "... and justice for all" except the poor.

[moondust]

4. Unbelievable.

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“His case, in my judgment, is a case study in what’s wrong with our system,” said Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. “He was convicted because he’s poor. We have a system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent and his case proves it. We have a system that is compromised by racial bias and his case proves it.” EJI represented Hinton.

https://news.wbhm.org/feature/anthony-ray-hinton-released-after-almost-30-years-on-death-row/

Bless Bryan Stevenson and his group. He was on Rachel's show with Steve Kornacki. I would recommend watching the clip when available for the details of how the case got so screwed up and why Mr. Hinton was on death row for 30 years despite his innocence, sometimes smelling the burning flesh of other prisoners put to death in the electric chair.

I hope they sue the State of Alabama for a hefty fortune.