{"id":573887845,"date":"2015-04-06T22:44:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T03:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573887845"},"modified":"2015-04-08T03:31:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T08:31:17","slug":"things-to-read-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/04\/06\/things-to-read-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to read"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since it is Monday, and since this is the new gimmick for the day, you can find a ton of links in this post. But first, one of the best stories I read all last week: Anthony Ray Hinton free after nearly 30 years on Alabama Death Row<\/a>:<\/p>\n

After nearly 30 years on Alabama’s death row, Hinton this morning walked out of prison a free man and into the arms of his sisters and friends.<\/p>\n

He was freed when prosecutors dismissed the charges for his re-trial in the 1985 deaths of two fast-food manager after new testing on Hinton’s gun couldn’t prove the crime scene bullets were fired from the weapons. <\/p>\n

“The sun does shine,” Hinton said as he was released.<\/p>\n

“I want you to know there is a God. He sits high but he looks low. He will destroy but yet he will defend and he defended me,” Hinton said.<\/p>\n

He said he wanted to say to the victims families that it was a “miscarriage ” of justice for them too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bad prosecution and bad evidence made for a bad conviction. I was in elementary school, but I remember the story of those murders. Something about how the shooter put the victims in the walk-in cooler before killing them really stuck with me. <\/p>\n

Hinton, now out of prison, said he was going to find a buffet. That seems like a reasonable enough short-term plan for a guy who has been on death row for decades.<\/p>\n

This is a terrific collection of presidential first pitches<\/a>. I pretty much love everything about that series of photographs. How could you not?<\/p>\n

Since this is, in part, the point of the day’s post … <\/p>\n

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Linking: "not just good form, or something you should do because the web allows … It's a basic tool for" extension of trust @jayrosen_nyu<\/a><\/p>\n

— Mindy McAdams (@macloo) March 31, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n