The Sun Does Shine

By: Anthony Ray Hinton

Topic: Hope

Content: Explicit language and sensitive topics (There are expletives sprinkled throughout and sensitive topics discussed here including rape, murder, executions and racism.  Not recommended for young children.)

I don’t often cry while reading a book, but at the end of this book I actually broke down in tears.  

Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and wrongly convicted of murder.  As a result, he was sentenced to death on Alabama’s death row in 1985.  He was 29 years of age.  He spent the next 30 years in a 5x7 cell, waiting to be executed for a crime he hadn’t committed.  Initially, he believed his innocence would become obvious, and he would soon be set free.  When that didn’t happen, the sense of injustice, and loss of freedom started him on the path of anger, hatred, and despair.  

Then one day, he had a revelation.  He remembered the lessons his mother had taught him from the Bible.  He recognized the power he still possessed even on death row.  The power to choose how he acted, and felt.  It changed everything.  Hope changed everything for him.  

In this powerful story, you will find things that challenge you.  You will read the words of Anthony as he struggles to find justice, and accept that he, an innocent man, might actually die in the electric chair.  And, most importantly, you will see how the hope he nurtured helped him to make a difference in the lives of other death row inmates as well.  

Fair warning.  This is not an easy book to read, but it is powerful.  

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