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

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In 1985, 29-year-old Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested in Alabama and charged with two counts of capital murder. Hinton knew he hadn’t committed the crime, and was convinced the truth would prove his innocence and he would be acquitted. When he was convicted and sentenced to the electric chair, he almost lost hope. As his memoir chronicles, the justice system in the South was stacked against a poor black man. Hinton spent his first three years on death row at Holman State Prison in agonizing silence—despairing and angry at all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. But as Hinton began to find his spirit again, he resolved to fight. For the next 27 years he was a beacon of hope, for himself, and for his fellow inmates, 54 of whom were executed during his time in prison. Finally, with the help of attorney and Just Mercy author Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015. The Sun Does Shine, with a foreword by Stevenson, is a modern classic tale of wrongful imprisonment and freedom won whose ultimate message is this: You can take away a man’s freedom, but not his imagination, humor, or even joy.