Anthony Ray Hinton (born June 1, 1956) is a man from Alabama who was wrongly convicted of the 1985 murders of two fast food restaurant managers in Birmingham, sentenced to death, and held on the state's death row for 28 years.In 2015 the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously overturned his conviction on appeal, and the state dropped all charges against him.
It was unable to affirm the forensic evidence of a gun, which was the only evidence in the first trial.After being released, Hinton wrote and published a memoir The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (2018).