article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Anthony Anthony Ray Hinton is thankful to be free after nearly 30 years on Alabama's death row for murders Anthony Ray Hinton says Anthony Ray Hinton didn't commit.
article_snippet.sent: Hinton, 58, looked up, took in the sunshine and thanked God and Hinton lawyers Friday morning outside the county jail in Birmingham, minutes after taking Hinton first steps as a free man since 1985.
article_snippet.sent: Hinton spoke of unjustly losing three decades of Hinton life, under fear of execution, for something Hinton didn't do.
article_snippet.sent: Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Laura Petro had ordered Anthony Ray Hinton released after granting the state's motion to dismiss charges against Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Laura Petro.
article_snippet.sent: Anthony Ray Hinton was convicted of murder in the 1985 deaths of two Birmingham-area, fast-food restaurant managers, John Davidson and Thomas Wayne Vason.
article_snippet.sent: Anthony Ray Hinton was 29 at the time of the two killings and had always maintained Anthony Ray Hinton innocence, said the Equal Justice Initiative, a group that helped win Anthony Ray Hinton release.
article_snippet.sent: Dressed in a dark suit and blue shirt, Anthony Ray Hinton praised God for his release, saying Anthony Ray Hinton was sent "not just a lawyer, but the best lawyers.
article_snippet.sent: Anthony Ray Hinton said Anthony Ray Hinton will continue to pray for the families of the murder victims.
article_snippet.sent: Both Anthony Ray Hinton and the families of the murder victims have suffered a miscarriage of justice, Anthony Ray Hinton said.
article_snippet.sent: For all of us that say that us believe in justice, this is the case to start showing, because I shouldn't have (sat) on death row for 30 years," Anthony Ray Hinton said.
article_snippet.sent: Anthony Ray Hinton mother, with whom Anthony Ray Hinton lived at the time of Anthony Ray Hinton arrest, is no longer living, according to the lawyer.
highlights_snippet.sent: Anthony Ray Hinton goes free Friday, decades after conviction for two murders .
  