![]() Hinton here provides a convincing description of continued segregation and injustice in the deep South that cages the underclass as effectively as prison walls. Hinton passed a polygraph test and was in a locked warehouse during one robbery, but that didn’t prevent an all-white jury from finding him guilty after only two hours (the death penalty recommendation took another 45 minutes). In 1985, Hinton, then 29, was charged with a series of violent robberies as well as the murders of two restaurant managers in Birmingham, Ala. ![]() ![]() In this intense memoir, Hinton recounts his three-decade nightmare: awaiting execution for crimes he didn’t commit. ![]()
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