In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. “Illuminating and emotionally powerful, simple and complex, and destined to become a classic in American prison literature.”
After his release from prison, Ray acts as a voice for those still on death row, telling his story and advocating to abolish the death penalty.Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Supreme Court, the State of Alabama finally drops the charges against him, illustrating the power of his optimism but also highlighting the injustice that he faced in the courts. After Ray spends 30 years on death row and makes an appeal to the U.S. He renews his faith in God and his hope that he will be able to get off death row-faith that is buoyed when Bryan Stevenson and other lawyers from the Equal Justice Initiative take over his case. After three years, Ray realizes that he has been choosing to be angry and hateful, and that he should instead try to choose love and compassion by forming connections with the other inmates. He feels helpless and tries to cope by daydreaming about traveling to interesting places and meeting interesting people. For his first three years there, Ray doesn’t speak to anyone-he is consumed by despair, loses his belief in God, and even contemplates committing suicide. Because of the extremely racist treatment and poor defense he receives, Ray is sentenced to Alabama’s death row. The police chief, Lietuenant Acker Prosecutor Bob McGregor and Ray’s first lawyer, Sheldon Perhacs, all make openly racist comments to him, and Ray’s poverty means that he has trouble paying for a proper defense. Over the course of the trial, Ray faces severe-and often overt-discrimination for being Black and poor. Ray has a strong alibi for one of the incidents, and the supposed murder weapon, Ray’s mom’s gun, hasn’t been fired in years, but the authorities refuse to consider this. But on July 31, 1985, 29-year-old Ray’s life changes drastically when the police arrest him for a series of murders that Ray didn’t commit. He loves his mom, has a strong Christian faith, and wants to find a nice girl to settle down with and marry. In Ray’s early life, he lives in Praco, Alabama. Anthony Ray Hinton, who goes by Ray, is the author and protagonist of The Sun Does Shine.
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