![]() After three years, Ray realizes that he has been choosing to be angry and hateful, and that he should instead try to choose love and compassion by forming connections with the other inmates. He feels helpless and tries to cope by daydreaming about traveling to interesting places and meeting interesting people. For his first three years there, Ray doesn’t speak to anyone-he is consumed by despair, loses his belief in God, and even contemplates committing suicide. Because of the extremely racist treatment and poor defense he receives, Ray is sentenced to Alabama’s death row. ![]() The police chief, Lietuenant Acker Prosecutor Bob McGregor and Ray’s first lawyer, Sheldon Perhacs, all make openly racist comments to him, and Ray’s poverty means that he has trouble paying for a proper defense. Over the course of the trial, Ray faces severe-and often overt-discrimination for being Black and poor. ![]() Ray has a strong alibi for one of the incidents, and the supposed murder weapon, Ray’s mom’s gun, hasn’t been fired in years, but the authorities refuse to consider this. ![]() But on July 31, 1985, 29-year-old Ray’s life changes drastically when the police arrest him for a series of murders that Ray didn’t commit. He loves his mom, has a strong Christian faith, and wants to find a nice girl to settle down with and marry. In Ray’s early life, he lives in Praco, Alabama. ![]() Anthony Ray Hinton, who goes by Ray, is the author and protagonist of The Sun Does Shine. ![]()
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