{"id":195498,"date":"2026-02-26T22:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195498\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:33:08","slug":"anthony-ray-hinton-shares-his-story-of-wrongful-conviction-in-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195498\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Ray Hinton shares his story of wrongful conviction in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interview: Anthony Ray Hinton shares his story of wrongful conviction in Sacramento<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 2:04 PM PST Feb 26, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnthony Ray Hinton, who spent decades on death row for murders he did not commit, visited Sacramento on Wednesday as part of the Sacramento Speakers Series to share his story and inspire critical thinking about the justice system. Hinton was convicted in the 1985 deaths of two Alabama restaurant managers, but his conviction was overturned in 2015 due to new evidence. He is the author of “The Sun Does Shine.” KCRA 3’s Deirdre Fitzpatrick sat down with him as part of the Sacramento Speakers Series. See a full interview in the video above. The next speaker in the series will be environmental advocate Celine Cousteau on March 25.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Anthony Ray Hinton, who spent decades on death row for murders he did not commit, visited Sacramento on Wednesday as part of the Sacramento Speakers Series to share his story and inspire critical thinking about the justice system. <\/p>\n

Hinton was convicted in the 1985 deaths of two Alabama restaurant managers, but his conviction was overturned in 2015 due to new evidence. He is the author of “The Sun Does Shine.” <\/p>\n

KCRA 3’s Deirdre Fitzpatrick sat down with him as part of the Sacramento Speakers Series. See a full interview in the video above. <\/p>\n

The next speaker in the series will be environmental advocate Celine Cousteau on March 25.<\/p>\n

See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview: Anthony Ray Hinton shares his story of wrongful conviction in Sacramento Updated: 2:04 PM PST Feb 26,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[91270,2820,47516,23615,91271,1520,60730,1459,121,123,122,15875,3044,669,2734,316,35542],"class_list":["post-195498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-anthony-ray-hinton","tag-app","tag-death-row","tag-download","tag-environmental-advocate-celine-cousteau","tag-interview","tag-justice-system","tag-part","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-speakers-series","tag-story","tag-subscribe","tag-top-california-story","tag-wednesday","tag-wrongful-conviction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}