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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection) by Anthony Ray Hinton, with Lara Love Hardin; and a foreword by Bryan Stevenson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection) about?
A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit."An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.”- Archbishop Desmond TutuIn 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine 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.But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. 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. But as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but find a way to live on Death Row. For the next twenty-seven years he was a beacon―transforming not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, fifty-four of whom were executed mere feet from his cell. With the help of civil rights attorney and
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- Author
- Anthony Ray Hinton, with Lara Love Hardin; and a foreword by Bryan Stevenson
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101904947
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Social Science, Law
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5 (8,923 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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