Ray Hinton was convicted of one brutal 1985 killings based on a gun that was found at his house . The US Supreme Court granted him a new trial because the gun was never definitively matched to the bullets found at the crime scenes . This week , prosecutors announced that they could not find evidence that the gun Hinton had matched the bullets at the scene . ' I should n't have sat on death row for 30 years . All they had to do was test the gun , ' he said Friday . Family of two of the murdered men issued reminder that Hinton has not been found 'innocent '
Ray Hinton was convicted of two brutal 1985 killings based on a gun that was found at his house . The US Supreme Court granted him a new trial because the gun was never definitively matched to the bullets found at the crime scenes . This week , prosecutors announced that they could not find evidence that the gun Hinton had matched the bullets at the scene . ' I should n't have sat on death row for 30 years . All they had to do was test the gun , ' he said Friday . Family of one of the murdered men issued reminder that Hinton has not been found 'innocent '