Alabama state forensic workers asserted this recovered gun was not only used in this recent robbery and attempted murder but also two other murders in the Bessemer area where restaurant managers had been robbed and killed at closing. Hinton’s mother, where they retrieved an old. Hinton was working in a secure facility with a guard who recorded everyone’s arrival and departure, miles from the crime scene, police went to the home of Mr. The victim survived and later misidentified Mr. One night while he was locked in a supermarket warehouse cleaning floors in Bessemer, Alabama, a restaurant manager fifteen miles away was abducted, robbed, and shot by a single gunman as he left work. He had never been accused of a violent act before his arrest. He lived with his mother until he was in his late twenties and worked as a contract laborer. He is blessed with an extraordinary sense of humor, which he relies on to overcome the racial barriers that condemn so many. He was a poor man in a criminal justice system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent. He resisted mightily the notion that he was arrested, charged, and wrongly convicted because of his race, but he ultimately couldn’t accept any other explanation.
He was taught by his remarkable mother to never see race or judge people because of their color. He learned to be a keen and thoughtful observer of the harsh realities of Jim Crow segregation and the way racial bias constrained the lives of people of color. Hinton grew up poor and black in rural Alabama.
Yet, it’s important that we understand that it happens in America and that more of us need to do something to prevent it from happening again.
For most people, it’s simply inconceivable. Most of us can’t possibly imagine what it feels like to be arrested, accused of something horrible, imprisoned, wrongly convicted because we don’t have the money needed to defend ourselves, and then condemned to execution. Hinton is one of the longest-serving condemned prisoners facing execution in America to be proved innocent and released. On April 3, 2015, Anthony Ray Hinton was released from prison after spending nearly thirty years in solitary confinement on Alabama’s death row. May we all learn to love as unconditionally as she did. If you believe the copy of this e-book you are reading infringes on the author’s copyright, please notify the publisher at: us./piracy.
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