A man released from prison after nearly 30 years on death row in Alabama has blamed his conviction on being black and poor.
Prosecutors dropped the case against Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, when new ballistics tests contradicted the only evidence that linked him to the murders of two restaurant managers in 1985.
He told the BBC the case against him was "built around racism and a lie".
His advocate Bryan Stevenson said the case demands a review.
Mr Hinton walked free from Jefferson Country Jail in Birmingham, Alabama, on Friday.
His lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, had argued for years that the case against Mr Hinton was flawed: that he had an alibi for when one of the crimes was committed, passed a lie detector test when he was first arrested, and no evidence corroborated the ballistics results used to convict him. More + photos...
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Prosecutors dropped the case against Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, when new ballistics tests contradicted the only evidence that linked him to the murders of two restaurant managers in 1985.
He told the BBC the case against him was "built around racism and a lie".
His advocate Bryan Stevenson said the case demands a review.
Mr Hinton walked free from Jefferson Country Jail in Birmingham, Alabama, on Friday.
His lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, had argued for years that the case against Mr Hinton was flawed: that he had an alibi for when one of the crimes was committed, passed a lie detector test when he was first arrested, and no evidence corroborated the ballistics results used to convict him. More + photos...
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