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08/09/2022
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THE TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT, ALONG WITH THE NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, PRESENT AN EVENING WITH ANTHONY RAY HINTON.
This hour long event will include a 45-minute presentation by Mr. Hinton followed by a 15-minute question and answer session. He will share his decades-long journey to exoneration and freedom. General admission to the presentation is free and open to the public. RSVPs are encouraged.
For interested guests, we will host a cocktail reception and meet & greet prior to Mr. Hinton's presentation. Tickets to the reception are $100.00, and ticket holder will receive reserved priority seating for the presentation and a signed copy of Mr. Hinton's memoir, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row.
Meet our speaker: Anthony Ray Hinton survived for 30 years on 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 lawyer 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 his 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. In 2019, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from St. Bonaventure University.
Free parking is available in the Museum's lot. To enter the lot, turn north on Mulberry Street from G.E. Patterson Avenue.
