The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

This event is free, but prior registration is required. The lecture will take place in Parmer hall within the Calvin and Janet High Center for Worship and Performing Arts at Messiah College. Visit Messiah's website here for more information. 

Anthony Ray Hinton is a survivor of Alabama's death row. His story is a  decades-long journey to exoneration and freedom. In 1985, Mr. Hinton was  convicted of the unsolved murders of two fast-food restaurant managers  based on the testimony of ballistics experts for the State who claimed  that the crime bullets came from a dusty revolver found in Mr. Hinton's  mother’s closet. Without the benefit of a competent expert to challenge  the State’s theory (Mr. Hinton’s lawyers hired a ballistics expert who  was blind in one eye), an all-white jury convicted Mr. Hinton, and he  was sentenced to death. After years of petitioning to have the revolver  re-analyzed, three independent experts concluded that the bullets could  not have been fired from Mr. Hinton’s mother’s revolver. With the  assistance of the Equal Justice Initiative, led by attorney Bryan  Stevenson, Mr. Hinton was freed in 2015. Since his release, Mr. Hinton  has traveled the world sharing his story and discussing the changes that  need to be made to prevent similar injustices from happening to other  people. In 2018, Mr. Hinton published The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, which was selected for Oprah’s Book Club and is a New York Times bestseller.