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

An inspiring and insightful narrative by a guy who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit about justice, love, hope, and the power of reading.

After being taken into custody, Anthony Ray Hinton was accused with two charges of capital murder in Alabama in 1985. Hinton was stunned, perplexed, and just twenty-nine years old. He understood it was a case of mistaken identification, and he thought the truth would eventually clear his name and set him free.

However, Hinton was condemned to death by electrocution since he had no money and the South had a distinct legal system for impoverished Black men. He endured excruciating quiet for his first three years on execution Row at Holman State Prison, but he was also filled with desperation and rage against everyone responsible for sending an innocent man to his execution. Hinton, however, made the decision to not only survive but also to find a way to live on Death Row after realising and accepting his destiny. He was a lighthouse for the next twenty-seven years, changing not just his own spirit but also the spirits of his fellow prisoners—54 of them were put to death only steps from his cell. In 2015, Hinton was freed because to the assistance of Just Mercy author and civil rights activist Bryan Stevenson.

The Sun Does Shine, which has a preface by Stevenson, is a remarkable example of the strength of optimism that endures even under the most dire circumstances. Hinton's book, which is destined to become a classic account of unjust incarceration and the path he took to win his release, describes his remarkable thirty-year odyssey and demonstrates how you may take away a man's freedom but not his inventiveness, humour, or pleasure.