Anthony Ray Hinton Quotes
I have no respect for the prosecutors, the judges. And I say that not with malice in my heart. I say it because they took 30 years from me.
Hinton, Anthony Ray. Press conference upon release from prison. Birmingham, AL, 3 Apr. 2015.
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He was convicted for treason for passing secrets to the Germans and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island. However, he had been the victim of an anti-Semitic plot to cover up for the real traitor—a Christian. However the ”Dreyfus Affair” brought out the virulent anti-Semitism in France. When the truth was exposed, Dreyfus was pardoned, and reinstated in the military, but 11 years in Devils Island had taken its toll on his heath, and he was retired as a result of his disability.
“Patriot” meant someone who was a supporter of anti-monarchy dissidents and rebels. It was more than a good citizen. The prisoners were incarcerated because they had been accused of supporting the monarchy early in or after the French Revolution.
The Mishnah was the first written codification of ancient Jewish laws and interpretations. The Books of Moses--the first 5 Books of the Old Testament was the fundamental law--God's law. The Mishnah was a combintion of administative and policy manuals and judicial precedents.
Anthony Ray Hinton is an American activist, writer, and author who was wrongly convicted of the 1985 murders of two fast food restaurant managers in Birmingham, Alabama. Hinton was sentenced to death and held on the state's death row for 28 years, and was later released in 2015.
