Daniella Silva, reporting for NBC News, covered Anthony Ray Hinton’s release from death row. She said,
One of the longest serving Alabama death row inmates will walk free on Friday after a judge dismissed the capital murder charges against him, finding there was not enough evidence to link him to the crimes.
Anthony Ray Hinton, who was on death row for nearly 30 years, had been charged and convicted in the 1985 murders of two Birmingham area fast-food managers.
She wrote,
Political network Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty issued a statement Thursday night on Hinton’s exoneration, saying: “Because of inept legal representation and faulty forensics, he has lost 30 years of his life, which he spent on death row, and could have easily been wrongly executed by the State of Alabama. The ease at which people are wrongly convicted and sentenced to death is appalling and should give conservatives pause.”