Anthony Ray Hinton, one of the longest serving Alabama death row inmates, will be a free man after a judge dismissed the capital murder charges against him for lack of evidence. Hinton was on death row for nearly three decades for a the 1985 murders of two Birmingham area fast-food managers. There were no witnesses or fingerprints to the murders of managers John Davidson and Thomas Wayne Vason, who were fatally shot in two separate restaurant robberies. Hinton was convicted on the claim that a revolver taken from his mother's home was the weapon used in both murders.
