Anthony Ray Hinton Exonerated After 30 Years on Death Row — Transcript

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1. 0:01for 30 years Anthony Ray Hinton was a
2. 0:04dead man
3. 0:07walking thank you
4. 0:09J thank you
5. 0:11Lord
6. 0:12prosecution seemed deemed to take my
7. 0:15life from me 58 years old Hinton lived
8. 0:19more than half his life inside a cage
9. 0:21home and Correctional Facility in
10. 0:22Southern Alabama today he's seeing and
11. 0:25experiencing things for the first time
12. 0:27in decades oh my goodness
13. 0:32so he is welcomed home a party in his
14. 0:35honor hosted by the Equal justice
15. 0:37initiative led by attorney Brian
16. 0:39Stevenson and his team of attorneys who
17. 0:41fought for decades to win hinton's
18. 0:43Freedom thank you for giving me my life
19. 0:46back just being here as a team you can
20. 0:52say that you got an inome man off there
21. 0:55his nightmare began in
22. 0:561985 Ronald Reagan was President back to
23. 0:59the the future was a box office hit and
24. 1:02under the cover of darkness two
25. 1:04Birmingham restaurant managers were shot
26. 1:06dead at closing time just months apart a
27. 1:09third victim another man who survived
28. 1:11the shooting and helped identify
29. 1:1329-year-old Anthony Ray Hinton as the
30. 1:16killer you're a free man now what does
31. 1:18that mean to you it mean everything I
32. 1:20mean uh you never think about your
33. 1:24freedom until it's taken away from you
34. 1:27you couldn't put a price tag on it my
35. 1:30all the back already so much about the
36. 1:32world has changed but the greatest still
37. 1:34is a world without his mother she died
38. 1:37while he was locked away it don't get no
39. 1:39lower for
40. 1:41me I'm not a shame of I'm proud of
41. 1:45That's The Bu that love of my
42. 1:46life he goes back to the home they share
43. 1:50together now a band kind of hate to see
44. 1:52it in this shape it's his first time
45. 1:55there since the night it was all taken
46. 1:57away this is the room where hinton's
47. 1:59mother kept her 38 caliber revolver
48. 2:01police said it was the murder weapon
49. 2:03hinton's court appointed public defender
50. 2:05hired a supposed ballistics expert to
51. 2:07dispute the prosecution's claim about
52. 2:09the murder weapon a persuasive expert he
53. 2:12was not so his ballistics expert was
54. 2:15blind in one eye yes that's correct he
55. 2:17had to ask how to turn on the machine he
56. 2:20couldn't see it he had to ask somebody
57. 2:23please help me so when he put him on the
58. 2:25stand as my
59. 2:28witness they Cru ified him I
60. 2:32said they going to find me guilty Hinton
61. 2:36was sentenced to death He was ordered to
62. 2:38spend the remainder of his life in
63. 2:39prison living inside a 5 by7 cell pretty
64. 2:43much sleep in a fetal position because
65. 2:45you feet hang over the bed you only have
66. 2:48a bed that is mounted to the wall on a
67. 2:51toilet and that's what I lived in for 30
68. 2:54years they took my 30s my 40 my 50 but
69. 3:00what they couldn't take was my
70. 3:10joy I couldn't do a thing about the
71. 3:13years but I could control my joy 53
72. 3:18inmates were executed at Holman while
73. 3:20Hinton was on death row my Dogers M with
74. 3:23being seen so many people that I got to
75. 3:25know be executed he languished in prison
76. 3:29for years before his case reached
77. 3:30appeals court I was had never been so
78. 3:32convinced of someone's innocence than I
79. 3:34had in Mr hinton's Case no one asked
80. 3:37them judge suel CA was one of those
81. 3:39appell at court judges who believed his
82. 3:41story there was no incriminating
83. 3:43evidence he didn't have anything from
84. 3:44the robbery there were no fingerprints
85. 3:46this is extremely unusual his appeal was
86. 3:49denied but his team kept fighting we had
87. 3:52exhausted every state court appeal and
88. 3:54it was the United States Supreme Court
89. 3:55that finally intervene the result was a
90. 3:57new trial the break Hinton had been
91. 3:59waiting for but just a few weeks ago the
92. 4:02state of Alabama dropped the case after
93. 4:04a new look of the evidence could not
94. 4:06match the bullets to the
95. 4:07gun and Hinton was
96. 4:11released since I've been locked up for
97. 4:1430 years and finances is
98. 4:17tight a
99. 4:19slight I don't sense any bitterness why
100. 4:22is that bitterness kills the
101. 4:26soul
102. 4:27I cannot hate
103. 4:30because my bible teach me not to hate
104. 4:33I've seen hate at is worse what would it
105. 4:37profit me to hate I want you to know
106. 4:41there is a God he sit high but he looks
107. 4:44low Lord he will destroy but yet he will
108. 4:47defend and he defend
109. 4:58me e