28 Years on Death Row
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Anthony Ray Hinton was held on death row for 28 years. He was incorrectly convicted of the murders of two restaurant managers, John Davidson and Thomas Wayne Vasona, in 1985. He was released in 2015 after winning a new trial. In this podcast, Anthony and I walked and talked our way through the streets of Birmingham, Alambama. I was overwhelmed by his generosity of spirit, lack of animosity and determination to live a good life despite the fact that so many years were taken away from him.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:00.6 | folks, Dan Snow here. |
| 0:01.6 | I am throwing a party to celebrate 10 years of Dan Snow's history hit. |
| 0:06.1 | I'd love for you to be there. |
| 0:07.5 | Join me for a very special live recording of the podcast in London, |
| 0:10.4 | in England on the 12th of September to celebrate the 10 years. |
| 0:14.1 | You can find out more about it and get tickets with the link in the show notes. |
| 0:17.5 | Look forward to seeing you there. |
| 0:24.1 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. Once we come to go back into the archive of |
| 0:29.4 | the History Hit podcast, which is getting along now. We've been around five years. |
| 0:32.4 | I pull out an episode that's interesting or important and has relevance to the moment that we're |
| 0:36.6 | in. And I think this is one of those podcasts. |
| 0:39.7 | This is an interview that I recorded in Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama, |
| 0:43.0 | with Anthony Ray Hinton, a man who spent 28 years on death row convicted for murder. |
| 0:49.8 | The evidence against him were flimsy to non-existent. |
| 0:53.4 | He was arrested because of the colour of his skin, thrown in prison after a deeply flawed legal process. |
| 0:58.9 | He's an absolutely remarkable man. |
| 1:00.5 | I took my daughter to meet him, so you may hear her asking the odd question on this podcast. |
| 1:05.6 | I think at this time when the issue of racial justice is back to the top of the agenda, |
| 1:08.9 | this is a really useful podcast to revisit. |
| 1:11.9 | I met him first through my wife, who's an activist in criminal justice reform, and everyone |
| 1:17.0 | who meets him is overwhelmed by his generosity of spirit, his lack of animosity, and his |
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