Hinton with Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson has done it again!
Anthony Ray Hinton, one of the longest serving death row prisoners in Alabama history, has been exonerated thanks to Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative that he founded. Hinton spent 30 years incarcerated for a crime that he did not commit.
I describe in my book, Circumstantial Evidence, how Stevenson proved another black man on Alabama’s death row innocent more than two decades ago. Walter “Johnny D” McMillian was condemned to death for the 1986 murder of a white teenage girl after two witnesses testified that they’d seen his truck parked at the scene of the killing and another witness claimed that he actually had see McMillian standing over the dead girl during a robbery. The case against McMillian seemed indisputable until Stevenson began investigating.