Anthony Ray Hinton was a man wrongfully convicted of a crime he did not commit back in the year 1985 and what happened was that two fast food restaurants in Birmingham Alabama were robbed and both Mangers were shot dead named Thomas Vason and John Davidson and on a later date of July 25th on the same year another restaurant was robbed in Bessemer Alabama. And the owner was shot but did not die from his wounds so later on he somehow identified him from a photo lineup even though he was in quote “working in a locked warehouse fifteen miles away at the time of the crime.” (eji.org) The police came in to Hinton's house and seized a revolver that was his moms house and the police officers examined the weapon and said it was sued in the crime with no fingerprints of anything relating him into the crime. The prosecutor Bob McGregor who was known to remove …show more content…
Hinton was 29 years old at the time and was not a violent man and a polygraph test that was given to him at the time proven his innocence when polygraph was still in use, but the judge James Garret did not use it at the trial. In the trial Hinton was given a lawyer who was really an awful lawyer who had vison problems and had no experience with weapon identification so he had nothing to back him up and in the end he was given the death penalty. Hinton’s first years of prison were not easy at all fighting the fact he was innocent the whole time and Hinton said about the judge who sent him to his death was in quote from theguardian.com” Every hour of every day, I imagined how I would kill McGregor,” He talked about how close his cell was to the electric chair that he would smell the burning flesh of the many men that were ahead of him in death row. 54 men went to