# Anthony Ray Hinton

Overturned · 1985

Anthony Ray Hinton (born June 1, 1956) is an American activist, writer, and author who was wrongly convicted of the 1985 murders of two fast food restaurant managers in Birmingham, Alabama. Hinton was sentenced to death and held on the state's death row for 28 years before his 2015 release. In 2014 the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously overturned his conviction on appeal, after which the state dismissed…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=46313213
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/anthony-ray-hinton-w46313213

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