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- Days after being exonerated and freed from an Alabama prison, Anthony Ray
Hinton recounts how he got through nearly 30 years on death row as an innocent
man. Hinton was convicted of murdering two fast-food managers in separate
robberies in 1985, based on scant evidence that later turned out to be false.
Hinton is said to be among the longest-serving death row prisoners ever to be
freed after presenting evidence of innocence. Hinton joins us along with his
attorney, Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative, who says race,
poverty, inadequate legal assistance, and prosecutorial indifference to
innocence conspired to create a textbook example of injustice. "This is a very
powerful demonstration of the critique of the American criminal justice system,
which we contend treats you better if you’re rich and guilty than if you’re poor
and innocent," Stevenson says.
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