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Surviving Criminal Justice in America: MLK Week Keynote & Enduring Questions Lecture Series event

  • Kleist Center for Art and Drama 95 E. Bagley Rd. Berea, OH 44017 (map)


An evening with Anthony Ray Hinton and Kuntrell Jackson interviewed by Adam Murphy of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)

Anthony Ray Hinton survived for 30 years on Alabama's death row for crimes he did not commit. Hinton was convicted of the unsolved murders of two fast-food restaurant managers based on the testimony of ballistics experts for the State who claimed that the crime bullets came from a dusty revolver found in Hinton's mother's closet. Without the benefit of a competent expert to challenge the State's theory, an all-white jury convicted Hinton, and he was sentenced to death. In 2015, Hinton was freed after more than a decade of litigation led by attorney Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI).