**WINNER OF THE 2019 MOORE PRIZE ****THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**‘A riveting account of the multiple outrages of the criminal justice system of Alabama. A harrowing masterpiece’ Guardian‘Hinton somehow navigates through his rage and despair to a state of forgiveness and grace’ IndependentAt age 29, Anthony Ray Hinton was wrongfully charged with robbery and murder, and sentenced to death by elect...

Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionThe Instant New York Times Bestseller**A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.“An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.”—Archbishop Desmond Tutu**In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two...

LAlabama, 1985. Anthony Ray Hinton, vingt-huit ans, est arrêté en train de tondre la pelouse de sa mère, et accusé d’un double meurtre. D’abord sidéré, il clame son innocence, persuadé d’être victime d’une erreur d’identité. Mais Hinton est noir et pauvre, et le système judiciaire, surtout dans cet État du sud, n’est pas équitable. Il est condamné à mort par électrocution.Dans le silence du couloir de la mort, il perd espoir. Mais alors qu’il accepte peu à peu son d...

**Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionA powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.“An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.”—Archbishop Desmond Tutu**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,...

A powerful memoir of hope, justice, and the unwavering resilience of the human spiritThe Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times, now adapted for younger readers, with a revised foreword by Just Mercy author Bryan Stevenson.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only 29 years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mi...

The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times, now adapted for younger readers.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only 29 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 a criminal justice system with the cards stack...

He walked into prison as an innocent man.He walked out thirty years later into a world that had almost forgotten him.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested in Alabama and charged with two capital murders he insisted he did not commit. Poor, Black, and facing the full power of the State, he entered a courtroom where his life depended on expert testimony, legal strategy, and whether a jury would believe him.They did not.Convicted and sentenced to death, Hinton s...