28 Years on Death Row

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🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Anthony Ray Hinton is an Alabama was held on death row after being wrongly convicted of the murders of two restaurant managers, John Davidson and Thomas Wayne Vasona, in Birmingham, Alabama on February 25 and July 2, 1985. In 2014 he was released after winning a new trial which demonstrated that the forensic evidence used against him during his original conviction was totally flawed. Since his exoneration and release Anthony has become an activist, writer, and author. In this episode, Anthony takes Dan around the streets of Birmingham, Alabama and they explore some of the most iconic locations of the civil rights movement. They also discuss his experiences as a death row inmate and the vital importance of forgiveness.

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0:00.0	I have a welcome dance to the history of going back to the archives now and we have taken
0:04.8	out a look at this particular favourite of mine. It was an amazing opportunity. I took my
0:10.1	family, one, in fact my wife who was a criminal justice campaigner, she took me and my little
0:14.6	daughter to meet someone wrongly imprisoned on death row for 28 years. His name is Anthony
0:20.4	Ray Hinton. He has now been released by the state of Alabama and he is an extraordinary
0:25.6	powerful campaigner for forgiveness and for justice. He was incorrectly convicted of the
0:31.0	murders of two restaurant managers John Davidson and Thomas Wayne Vasson in 1985 and he was
0:37.5	released after nearly 30 years after he won a re-trial. The evidence against him was flimsy
0:44.0	to non-existent. So in this podcast, Anthony and I talked about his experiences, talked
0:50.1	about racial justice in the US and the deep south. We walked the streets of Birmingham
0:54.9	and Alabama, a place which saw so many of the remarkable incidents that have become
1:00.4	familiar to millions of us from a great clash for civil rights that took place and I was
1:05.2	overwhelmed by his generosity, his lack of animosity, his determination to live a good life
1:10.7	despite the fact that so many years were taken away from him and he wasn't allowed
1:14.8	on a prison to get his mother's funeral. I hope you enjoyed this episode in which meetings
1:19.8	I exposed my daughter as well. We are asking you also questions about his experiences
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