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The sun does shine : how I found life and freedom on death row / Anthony Ray Hinton, with Lara Love Hardin ; and a foreword by Bryan Stevenson.

Hinton, Anthony Ray, (author.). Hardin, Lara Love, (author.). Stevenson, Brian, (writer of foreword.).

Summary:

A man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he did not commit describes how he became a victim of a flawed legal system, recounting the years he shared with fellow inmates who were eventually executed before his exoneration.

Record details

ISBN: 9781250205797
ISBN: 1250205794
Physical Description: xii, 269 pages ; 25 cm.
Edition: Oprah's Book Club edition.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Afterword contains list of death row inmates as of March 2017 (p. 243-265)

Formatted Contents Note:

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.