The sun does shine : how I found life and freedom on death row

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The sun does shine : how I found life and freedom on death row

Author:

Hinton, Anthony Ray, author.

Hardin, Lara Love, author.

Stevenson, Bryan, writer of foreword.

Free, Kevin R., narrator.

Summary:

In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. It was a case of mistaken identity, and Hinton believed that the truth would prove his innocence. Sentenced to death by electrocution, he spent his first three years at Holman State Prison full of despair and anger toward all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. He resolved to find a way to live on Death Row, and for the next twenty-seven years he transformed not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates. After winning his release in 2015, Hinton shows how you can take away a man's freedom, but you can't take away his imagination, humor, or joy.

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Title from container.

Compact discs.

Edition:

Unabridged.

Contents:

Capital offense -- All American -- A two-year test drive -- The cooler killer -- Premeditated guilt -- The whole truth -- Conviction, conviction, conviction -- Keep your mouth shut -- On appeal -- The death squad -- Waiting to die -- The Queen of England -- No monsters -- Love is a foreign language -- Go tell it on the mountain -- Shakedown -- God's best lawyer -- Testing the bullets -- Empty chairs -- Dissent -- They kill you on Thursdays -- Justice for all -- The sun does shine -- Bang on the bars -- Afterword : pray for them by name.

Physical Description:

8 audio discs (10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

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Publisher:

Macmillan Audio,

Publication Date:

2018

ISBN:

9781427293053

Publication Information:

[New York, New York] : Macmillan Audio, [2018]

℗2018

Call Number:

CDB 364.66 HINTON

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Summary

Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection

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 Tutu

In 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 bestselling author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015.

With a foreword by Stevenson, The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times. Destined to be a classic memoir of wrongful imprisonment and freedom won, Hinton's memoir tells his dramatic thirty-year journey and shows how you can take away a man's freedom, but you can't take away his imagination, humor, or joy.

This program includes a forward written and read by Bryan Stevenson.

Praise for The Sun Does Shine audiobook:

"The incredible details of Hinton's trial and eventual release are narrated in an honest, easy style by Kevin R. Free...He captures the Southern rhythms of Hinton's speech with a natural cadence that brings us closer to his pain." -- AudioFile Magazine

"Kevin R. Free performs this work with flashes of anger cast over a deep humility, and captures the sense of humor that Hinton was, incredibly, able to hold on to during his long years in solitary confinement...This is a story that enrages and inspires." -- New York Times

Author Notes

Anthony Ray Hinton is an African American man who spent 28 years on death row in Alabama. He was convicted of two murders that he did not commit. He was released in April 2015. His memoir is entitled, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, published in March 2018.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

In 1985, Hinton was arrested for murder, found guilty, and sentenced to death by electric chair in Alabama. However, Hinton was working in a locked warehouse at the time of the shooting. This audiobook tells the tale of Hinton's early life, the trial, and the next 30 years he spent on death row. The most remarkable aspect of Hinton was and is his ability to see happiness in every situation. He even told his prosecutor that he loved him after the trial. Civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson (Just Mercy) learned of the case years later and helped to exonerate Hinton in 2015. A foreword voiced by Stevenson brings the listener into Hinton's world immediately. Narrator Kevin R. Free performs the book perfectly as he reads Hinton's powerful tale. VERDICT Any person who follows the Innocence Project in the news and those who watched Making a Murderer on Netflix will be amazed at Hinton's perseverance throughout his incarceration and years on death row. ["A must for anyone involved in criminal justice. Suggested reading for anyone interested in learning more about death row and its horrors": LJ 4/1/18 starred review of the St. Martin's hc.]--Jason L. Steagall, formerly with Gateway Technical Coll. Lib., Elkhorn, WI © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.