Research Catalog

The sun does shine : how I found life and freedom on death row

Title

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.

Author

Hinton, Anthony Ray

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, [2018]
©2018

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

2 Items

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	Sc E 18-949	Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JFE 18-5366	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Details

Additional Authors

Description

xii, 255 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in agonizing silence, full of despair and anger toward all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. But as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but find a way to live on Death Row. For the next twenty-seven years he was a beacon, transforming not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, fifty-four of whom were executed mere feet from his cell. With the help of civil rights attorney and author Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015. Hinton's memoir tells his dramatic thirty-year journey and shows how you can take away a man's freedom, but you can't take away his imagination, humor, or joy.

Series Statement

Oprah's book club

Uniform Title

Oprah's book club.

Subject

Genre/Form

Autobiographies.

Note

Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 selection.

Contents

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.

Call Number

Sc E 18-949

ISBN

9781250124715
1250124719
9781250124722 (canceled/invalid)
1250124727 (canceled/invalid)
9781250205797 (canceled/invalid)
1250205794 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2017044467
99976534942
99976384591

OCLC

1004424928

Author

Hinton, Anthony Ray, author.

Title

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.

Publisher

New York : St. Martin's Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oprah's book club

Oprah's book club.

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Hardin, Lara Love, author.

Stevenson, Bryan, writer of foreword.

Other Standard Identifier

99976534942

99976384591

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-949

JFE 18-5366

View in Legacy Catalog