From The Trussville Tribune staff reports
MONTGOMERY – A photo has been spotlighted in social media of a former death row inmate wearing a #voted sticker on his forehead while smiling.
According to CBS42, former Alabama inmate, Anthony Hinton, spent 28 years on Alabama’s death row before being released in 2015 after new ballistics tests contradicted the only evidence against him.
The group who helped gain his freedom, Equal Justice Initiative, tweeted the picture with the message, “For 30 years, Mr. Hinton was stripped of all his rights while he sat on Alabama death row for a crime he didn’t commit. Today, he arrived at the polls at 7 a.m. and exercised his right to vote.”
The popular tweet has been retweeted and liked by thousands.
Equal Justice Initiative spokeswoman Tania Cordes shared that Hinton was first in line at the polls, arriving before the doors opened Nov. 6. He wore the sticker on his forehead so no one would miss his act.