The Sun Does Shine

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Anthony Ray Hinton Exonerated After 30 Years on Death Row

1. Why do you think Hinton says “it didn’t really matter” (page 151) if the incarcerated men in his book group
   were innocent or not?
2. Why does Hinton say, “there’s no racism on death row” (page 161)? Why does he say, “There was no past
   and no future on the row” (page 162)? Do you agree with these assessments?
3. Why do you think Hinton chose to begins chapter 16 with an epigraph of Henry Hays’s last words? How do
   these words help frame the content of the chapter?
4. Why do you think Hinton requests that Stevenson hire a ballistics expert who is an, “honest, racist, Southern,
   white expert” (page 172)? Why are each of these characteristics important?
5. Why do you think Bryan Stevenson decides to personally represent Hinton?