Ray Hinton's Murder Case

At just 30 years old, Ray Hinton was convicted of killing two restaurant managers and was sentenced to die in Alabama. At the age of 57, the United States Supreme Court, overturned that death sentence, which allowed him to have a new trial that resulted in his exoneration. Hinton sat with Scott Pelley for a 60 Minutes interview along with two other prisoners who was exonerated. They spoke on the feeling that comes with being falsely convicted and the ability to walk free.

Hinton had stated in an unaired clip that CBS News posted on their website, how death row was the “smell of death” in regards to the electric chair just drifting through the prion air.

Pelley asked, “When you smelled that smell did you think, ‘I’m next?’”

Hinton responded,