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>> pelley: ray hinton stepped out of prison after nearly 30 years on death row, a free man. what was that moment like? >> as though i was walking on clouds. >> pelley: but hinton's story raises serious questions about how we handle unjust convictions. >> 30 years ago, a judge proudly stood up and said, "i sentence you to die." 30 years later, no one had the decency to say, "we sorry for what took place." >> i'm past patiently waitin' i'm passionately smashin' every expectation every action's an act of creation... >> rose: the show has reached the loftiest heights. in five months at the richard rodgers theater, "hamilton" has

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september. they put up an airbase ands there. russian president vladimir putin said the air strikes were aimed at fighting islamic terrorism,ecame apparent that the majority of the bombs were aimed not t isis, but at other syrian insurgent groups fighting the regime of russia's ally, president bashar al-assad.heir motives, the russians have inserted themselves into the syrian conflict and any discussion of how it might end.minutes" reported from the american base in qatar, the command center for u.s. operations in the middle east.ussian base, so we asked and they agreed. we set out on the road to syria, which took us on a detour we didn't expect.et to the russian airbase in latakia, syria, you have to start here in moscow.

gates of the airbase. by the russian ministry of defense, then taken on a russian military transport on a circuitous five- hour flight over territorythe caspian sea, iran, iraq, before finally landing in syria. it was almost midnight when ourrussian airbase outside moscow. as we started to take pictures out the window, we were told nyet-- "no"-- something we next three days. >> no, no, no. >> whitaker: this was the first face we saw after landing.esident bashar al-assad. this once was a syrian airport. since the summer, the russiansrought in 4,000 personnel, paved roads, rolled in truckloads of equipment and munitions, e

this is mostly friendly territory, at least 20 mileslines, but the russians aren't taking any chances. helicopter gun ships constantly patrolled the perimeter. newly extended runways to watch a steady series of planes taking off. the roar was deafening.russians invited about a dozen news organizations on this tour of the latakia airbase. they especially wanted us toest fighter-bomber, the su-34. our russian guide in syria, konashenkov, is chief spokesman for the ministry of defense. over the previous 24 hours, heents and 34

independent monitoring groupsanes we saw taking off did bomb isis targets, but most bombed more immediate threats to the assad nusrah, the syrian arm of al qaeda. general konashenkov wouldn't tell us how many planes are but american military sources say the russians have 36 fighter planes and 17 helicopters. the russian military says they,000 sorties, mostly from here, since president putin ordered the bombing campaign in september.al of russia in this intervention? >> vladimir komoyedov ( translated ): the main task isn this region, syrian statehood. >> whitaker: admiral vladimir komoyedov is the chairman of the russian parliament's defense committee.in the planning

the united states is focused primarily on defeating isis.ve other priorities-- supporting the assad regime and helping the assad regime fight its enemies,eems to take priority over fighting isis. >> komoyedov: if you cut off the head, you get chaos., chaos essentially in iraq. half the country is under isil. and the head was chopped off there, you see.to so stubbornly remove the leaders of syria, it's an enormous mistake. >> whitaker: i'm just wonderingsad has a role in the future of syria? that he has lost some of his authority. the people themselves must figure out, in elections, whom

essentially ruined in syria. >> whitaker: ruined, in large part, by president assad's own military.al komoyedov is not crazy about the syrian president, who has dropped bombs on his own people. the admiral used a derogatory, then asked that we not repeat it on tv. >> komoyedov: we know why the opposition was formed.he mistakes of the president of syria himself. >> whitaker: when they launched this mission back in september,ould be temporary. after months of almost daily bombing, isis and the other insurgent groups fighting the assad regime have barely beenory they hold. and russia has added more planes and expanded to other bases here in syria. the mission doesn't look so temporary anymore. overestimate the power of the syrian army? >> komoyedov: but we have been

fulfilling them. president assad shouldn't rest on his laurels. he needs to work on his army and raise its morale, and ifmy himself. he needs to unite his forces, which are scattered like fingers. they must be clenched into a fist.t them, at least you can give them a black eye. >> whitaker: it was the russians who got a black eye when one ofhot down and a pilot killed by the turkish air force in late november. that incident may have been why tartus, two hours south of latakia. this is the russian navy's only foothold in the mediterranean.s base seems to be one key reason president putin maintained, and now is escalating, his support for bashar al-assad.stination was the "moscow," a guided missile

offshore. and did everything short of firing off one of its missiles to demonstrate russia's naval might.ly the flagship of the black sea fleet. it now has a new mission. when i see all of this, i... iou fighting? isis doesn't have any capability like this.ld us the ship's main mission is not to fight terrorists. after turkey shot down the russian fighter, the "moscow"o provide anti- aircraft defense. that a russian guided missile cruiser is providing air defense agai what was supposed to be a war against isis and islamic terrorism is a sign just how complicated this temporary

be reckoned with, which has been putin's goal all along throughout the 15 years of his leadership.man is a political analyst in moscow, one of the few independent voices willing to publicly criticize president putin.ia waging this state-of-the-art military operation in a very important region made the russians feel proud.an with the annexation of crimea, when russia reinstated historical justice, the way it was seen in russia. >> whitaker: so this isout syria, but about russia's place in the world? >> lipman: of course, it is also about syria. but i do not think the goal, thetop the war. i think the primary goal was russia's stature in the world.wanted to know

war here in latakia, a coastal province, home to about two million people. the shops looked full and life seemed normal as we rode through town.ed off the bus-- for security reasons, our russian minders said. instead, they took us to athe city's sports complex. while hundreds of thousands of syrians have fled to europe from the bombs and brutality ofs opponents, the russians wanted to show us people who had fled to the safety of the syrian government.of the millions of refugees from this civil war. amid the tents, we found this woman.three years after fleeing aleppo with her daughter and grandchildren. what was happening in aleppo that made you come here to this

told us. she said her son was killed. you lost everything?didn't know who was responsible for the barrel bomb dropped from a plane that destroyed her house. but barrel bombs are a signatured regime. do you hope to go home again? "god willing," she said. she told us she felt safe herecamp, and she was grateful to the russians for helping out. for those on the receiving end a different story. the russians have presented this war through a series of videos of precision strikes withllites and drones. yet as we were shown the planes being heavily armed for their missions, we saw many of whatbs" being loaded- unguided weapons, which

deaths.m wrong-- i have read that many of the targets hit by the russians have been selected by the syrians. is that true?ated ): we use our data and syrian data. but i think there's a trick in your question-- that supposedlyre hitting the wrong target. yes, there may be mistakes. but you have to know that such things happen.es the americans have missed, you know. war is not like going for a stroll somewhere in the park. war is death.t's fire. >> whitaker: we saw little of that during our trip to syria.ussians showed off their firepower but not the results, and the results have

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>> pelley: about ten times a month now, an innocent person is prison. they're exonerated, sometimes after decades, because of new evidence, new confessions, orf dna. there is joy the day that justice arrives, but we wondered, what happens the day after?meet three people who have returned to life from unjust convictions. one of them, ray hinton, was on death row.dly, the alabama electric chair and the scent that permeated the cell block when a man was met by 2,000 volts. for nearly 30 years until this past april.hinton stepped out of the shadow of execution,

chose for himself since 1985.ment like? >> ray hinton: as though i was walking on clouds.in case they changed they mind, you know. >> pelley: you still didn't believe it. >> hinton: i was not going to ve that i was free until i was actually free. >> pelley: free to visit hisr grave believing her son would be executed. the cemetery was hinton's first destination. and he was startled by a worldout him. >> hinton: we headed toward the graveyard, and a voice come on and said, "at two-point-so-many miles, turn right.", "what the hell? who is that?" and he said his gps tracker. white

i wanted to know how did she get in that car and what is she doing in this car. man, come on.oice tended to be a surprise. on death row, hinton spent most of every day alone. after 30 years inside, mostly byu worry about coming back out into the world? >> hinton: you get out and you just out. if you don't have a place to whatever, you ask yourself, "what am i going to do?" but my best friend stuck by me for 30 years. and he had already told me, you come live with me and my wife." >> pelley: what did you have to learn after you got out? >> hinton: i'm still learning.t i can take a bath every day. i'm still learning that i don't the

i'm still learning that life iswe think it is. >> pelley: ray hinton's life was never what he thought it would be after 1985, when he wasness who picked him out of a mug shot book. his picture was in there after a theft conviction. when police found a gun in histenant told him that he'd been arrested in three shootings, including the murders of two restaurant managers.u got the wrong guy." and he said, "i don't care whether you did it or don't." he said, "but you going to be convicted for it. and you know why?" i said, "no."you got a white man. they going to say you shot him. going to have a white d.a. we going to have a white judge. you going to have a white jury, more than likely."d, "all of that spell conviction, conviction, conviction." i said, "well, does it matter that i didn't do it?"

saying that. but hinton was convicted at age 30. he court ruled nine to zero that his defense had been ineffective. a new ballistics test found thatrder weapon. >> hinton: 30 years ago, a judge proudly stood up and said, "i sentence you to die."ater, no one had the decency to say, "mr. hinton, we sorry for... we sorry for what took place." no one have said it.d the state of alabama give you to help you get back up on your feet? >> hinton: they dropped all charges and that was it. >> pelley: no money?

>> pelley: no suit of clothes? >> hinton: nothing. no. and that is where many states are failing the growing number of exonerated prisoners. it turns out, in alabama, if rayurder and was released on parole, he would have been eligible for job training, housing assistance, and a bus ticket home.no immediate help to the innocent who's convictions can be embarrassing because of misconduct or incompetence by >> bryan stevenson: you can't traumatize someone, try to kill someone, condemn someone, lockars, and not feel some responsibility for what you've done. >> pelley: attorney bryan stevenson worked on ray hinton's case for 16 years.started the equal justice initiative, one of a growing number of legal organizations overturning false convictions.d support- - they need economic support,

need medical support, they need mental health care. they need to know that theirbuse has been taken seriously. >> ken ireland: it was just absolutely unimaginable and i couldn't even explain the horror of it. lost 21 years. he was misidentified by witnesses who collected a $20,000 reward.pe and murder, dna proved his innocence. >> good morning. >> good morning, sir. because of the rare perspective's done hard time, the governor put ireland on connecticut's parole board. >> at some point in your life,up. >> pelley: so this is your new cell? >> ireland: well, yeah, for eight hours a day. >> pelley: it took five years to get this job.ed with his sister and he found work as a counselor for troubled kids. >> ireland: i got a little small apartment in town. i mean, there was the nightsd myself

slept in there. just thinking, you know, someone's going to come kick >> pelley: you slept in a closet? >> ireland: yeah, yeah, a few times, i have. >> pelley: are you over that now, six years later? >> ireland: yeah, i don't have them issues now.ier every day. >> pelley: one thing that made it easier was connecticut's new law that compensates the wrongly convicted.s the first to get a check. >> pelley: what did the state give you? >> ireland: $6 million. >> pelley: $6 million!? >> ireland: right, and... >> pelley: wow.e than most states are giving. >> pelley: well, it comes to something like $300,000 a year for every year you spent in prison.ot worth it? >> ireland: oh, absolutely not. absolutely not. they could give me $5 million for every year and it still wouldn't be worth it. >> pelley: ken ireland wascall it that. 20 states offer no compensation at all. one is julie baumer's home,

you lost? >> julie baumer: everything. everything. my life is nothing as it was.umer was a mortgage broker raising her sister's baby. he became ill, so she took him to an emergency room.spected the boy had been shaken until his brain was damaged. baumer was convicted of child abuse.r in prison when new evidence showed that the boy had suffered a natural stroke. she was retried, acquitted, and the judge apologized.leased, for a time, she was homeless. how did you start over? >> baumer: it was very, very, very rough. you start from the bottomty. i didn't have an i.d. and then, after i jumped over that hurdle, then you start applying for jobs.rough "okay, well, now there's a five gap... year gap on your re sume . why is this?"

potential employer the truth.t phone calls back. >> pelley: there was no support for you of any kind. >> baumer: no. ( phone rings ) our lady of redemption.r now works for a detroit-area parish. >> baumer: thank you. god bless. hopefully, my testimony as an exoneree...e time she's lobbying michigan's legislature for a compensation law. >> baumer: no amount of money can ever bring back everything that i've lost.fail to see the injustice in these cases. but when it comes to compensation, there are peoplew who are saying, "you know, it was just bad luck, and we don't necessarily owe them for the life that they lost."'t luck, this was a system. this was actually our justice system. it was our tax dollars who paid for the police officers who arrested mr. hinton;that paid for the judge and the prosecutor that prosecuted him; that paid for the experts who got it wrong;

row for 30 yearsmit. this has nothing to do with luck. this has everything to do with the way we treat those who are vulnerable in our criminal justice system.inton is considering applying for compensation, but alabama has paid only one exoneree after 41 claims.ney bryan stevenson has been hinton's guide to advances like a.t.m.s and smart phones, and tot never change, like getting a license at the d.m.v. >> hinton: whether i ever catchon't know, but i'm going to try. >> pelley: hinton is working part-time now, speaking about justice and faith.t never, never believed that god would allow me to die for something that i didn't do.

to work it out, but i believed it out. i can't get over the fact that,n black, and someone that had the authority who happened to beeed to send me to a cage and try to take myomething that they knew that i didn't do. >> pelley: of course, they did take ray hinton's life. a false conviction isn't aboutoss of an education, a marriage, the chance to start a family, settle into a job and build a pension. didn't take was the breath from his body. are you angry? >> hinton: no. >> pelley: how could you not be? your life, most

>> hinton: they took 30 years of my life, as you said. i cannot afford to give that to them. and so, being angry is... wouldg them win. >> pelley: you'd still be in prison. >> hinton: oh absolutely. i am a person that love to laugh. i love to and how can i smile when i'm full of hate? and so, the 30 years that theyount today... i count every day as a joy. >> this is adam zuker with the cbs sports update brought to you by the lip con motor company. seattle defeated minnesota 10-ed in their n.f.c. wild card matchup. minnesota's blair walsh missed ah less

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ive months, "hamilton" has become part of broadway lore. it is one of the most critically nd one of the toughest tickets to get, already sold out until summer. the story of founding father alexander hamilton and hised by a young, multi-racial cast-- dancing, singing, and rapping to hip-hop and popular music.ed last fall, the man behind it, 35-year-old lin-manuel miranda, wrote the music, lyrics, and book, andcharacter, one of the most audacious and brilliant figures in american history. >> lin-manuel miranda: the thing in paragraphs, so the opening

crazy run-on sentence.phan, son of a whore and a scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the caribbean by providence, impoverished inp to be a hero and a scholar?" that's the question we're going to answer for the next two hours and 45 minutes. i'm past patiently waitin'ashin' every expectation every action's an act of creation... >> rose: in "hamilton," the answers come fast. >> miranda: first time i'm and i'm not throwing away my shot! >> rose: "my shot" is the show's anthem. the "young, scrappy and hungry"ew york just before the american revolution. >> rise up! rise up, take a shot rise up! rise up, take a shotrowing away my shot! not throwing away my shot! ook me a year to write "my shot." >> rose: it took you a year.

because every couplet needed to be the best couplet i ever wrote.at's how seriously i was taking it. >> rose: hamilton demands lots from you. >> miranda: he's calling on my best. sir, entrust me with a command.front and center at nearly every major event in early american history. >> man, the man is non-stop! president, but had a bigger impact than many who did. >> let me tell you what i wished i'd known... >> rose: his mentor was georgechris jackson, who plucked hamilton out of the ranks and relied on him for 20 years. >> daveed diggs: so what did i miss?ss? >> rose: rapper daveed diggs plays thomas jefferson. he is hamilton's primary political opponent.lets out your gun the bullets out your gun... >> rose: the show reflects miranda's broad musical taste, but hip-hop and rap define it.

and i also believe that form is uniquely suited to tell hamilton's story. because it has more words per musical genre. it has rhythm and it has density. and if hamilton had anything inhis density. >> renee-elise goldsberry: i'm a girl in a world in which my only job is to marry rich my father has no sons, so i'm the one who has to social climb oldest and the wittiest and the gossip in new york city is insidious... >> rose: miranda wrote this for hamilton's sister-in-law,yed by renee-elise goldsberry. in "hamilton," women get equal time. >> just you wait...ose: the idea to cast black and latino actors to play the founders was deliberate. miranda wanted to connect america then with america now.ever back down and

ooh!on" blossomed during an extended run at new york's public theater. and it was greeted with it opened on broadway. >> miranda: i come up here in the opening number. >> rose: the show has reached the loftiest heights.richard rodgers theater, "hamilton" has chalked up nearly $70 million in advanced ticket sales. to get a seat never know who might be the president of the united states. >> miranda: at our sixth preview.ident of the united states. >> miranda: yes. it's put my dreams to shame, laughter )r humbling, and when you list those boldface names that have come to see the show, i see those as an opportunity to see the show with >> rose: oh, yeah.

sitting in the audience, i think, "what is he thinking when he hears the lyric, 'history has its eyes on you'," you know?here, what is he thinking as he sees george washington say, "i have to step down so the country can move on."a complicated figure-- war hero, famous philanderer, political thinker, mud-slinging politician, and the nation'sry. >> ron chernow: he creates the first fiscal system, first monetary system, first customs service, first central bank, on and on and on.rnow wrote the biography that inspired the musical and is the show's historical advisor. >> chernow: lin-manuel miranda,ugh to know that the best way to dramatize a story was to stick as close to the facts as possible.penniless, orphaned, immigrant kid who comes out of nowhere and his achievements were absolutely monumental. of nowhere.

island of nevis. he spent his adolescence on st. croix. when he came to north america, >> miranda: we're still playing dominoes on the street. >> rose: it is a story miranda can relate to. his father moved from puerto rico when he was 18.inwood on the northern tip of manhattan. today, luis miranda is a prominent political consultant. his wife luz is a psychologist.nd i, we have always known that this kid was destined for greatness.wn. >> luis miranda: my only concern was always, "is his greatness going to come with money, so he >> rose: when did you see the musical talent? >> luis miranda: always. >> luz towns-miranda: from the time he was tiny... >> luis miranda: always. ( laughter ) >> luzved to sing. he was always creating, and he loved words and songs. >> rose: like hamilton, young lin-manuel was something of a

school for gifted children. >> miranda: you know, i went to a school where e me. and i'm not blowing smoke. i... i was surrounded by genius, genius kids. what's interesting about growinghat is you go, "all right, i got to figure out what my thing is. because i'm not smarter than these kids. i'm not funnier than half of them, so i better figure outo and work really hard at that." and because, intellectually, i'm treading water to... to be here.do you think i'm sitting here talking to you and not sitting here talking to one of your classmates? >> miranda: because i picked a lane and i started running ahead of everybody else. ( laughs )he honest answer. it was like, i was like, "all right-- this." >> rose: "this" was theater. he was in practically every school play.stairs. this is really where we grew up. >> rose: the family didn't have a lot of money to see broadway shows. but they did collect cast

them.ow me," "the lusty month of may." >> miranda: "lusty month of may." all of the wordplay. "if you may take me to the fair." "you'll thrash and bash him?" "i'll smash and mash him?", "he will be trouble." "he will be rubble." ( laughter ) >> rose: if ever i would leave you. >> miranda: it would not be in springtime knowing how in spring i'm so... >> rose: how can you have so many songs in your head?! >> miranda: because i had a lot of time on my hands. >> rose: so many songs in your head.well these were... >> rose: do you have room for anything else in your head? >> miranda: i mean, i don't know my social security number. >> stahl: he graduated from wesleyan university in 2002 withts. that's where he began working on a show about his old neighborhood. >> miranda: lottery ticket, just part of the routine everybody's got a dream... >> rose: it turned into miranda's first broadway show. "in the heights" won the 2008 tony for best musical., he picked up ron chernow's book during a

>> miranda: this is what i knew from high school. i knew hamilton died in a duel with the vice president.10 bill. but really, i just was browsing the biography section. it could have been truman. >> rose: and as you read it, what happened? >> miranda: i was thunderstruck.t where, you know, a hurricane destroys st. croix, where hamilton is living. and he writes a poem about the carnage, and this poem gets him off the island. a rap artist in him. >> miranda: yes. i drew a direct line between hamilton's writing his way out of his circumstances and thedoring. >> miranda: i'm thrilled the white house called me... >> rose: nine months after reading the book, he was invited to the white house to perform ahts." he decided to take a risk. >> miranda: i'm actually working on a hip-hop album. it's a concept album about thethink embodies hip hop, treasury secretary alexander hamilton. ( laughter ) you laugh?! but it's true!

>> miranda: i see a terrified young puerto rican man. >> rose: do you, really? >> miranda: terrified. because there's the leader ofy-elected leader of the free world, his entire family. there's biden. >> miranda: the ten dollar founding father without a father... >> rose: but as he began thesmerized. >> miranda: moved in with a cousin the cousin committed suicide left him with nothing but ruined pride something new insidex, you gotta fend for yourself" he started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf there would have been nothin' left to dotute he woulda been dead or destitute without a cent or restitution, started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlordnd all the things he can't afford... that video's a microcosm of my entire hamilton experience. i say, "hip hop, alexandere laughs. and then, by the end, they're not laughing. because they're in it. because they've been sucked into the story, just like i got

making that story come alive. >> miranda: are you ready for a cabinet meeting, huh? battle with jefferson over how to pay off the revolutionary war debt. >> in virginia, we plant seeds in the ground. we create. you just want to this financial plan is an outrageous demand and it's too many damn pages for any man to understand.at was a real nice declaration. welcome to the present we're running a real nation would you like to join us, or stay mellow, doing whatever the hell it is a civics lesson from a slaver, hey, neighbor. your debts are paid because you don't pay for labor. "we plant seeds in the south. we create!" keep ranting.ally doing the planting! >> miranda: i think the secret sauce of this show is that, i can't believe this story is true.robable and amazing story, and i learned about it while i was writing it. and i think that enthusiasm is

doesn't hesitate he exhibits no restraint and he takes and he takes and he takes... >> key ingredient, the show's narrator. he is hamilton's cautious alter ego. >> odom: if there's a reason he seems to thrive so few survivet, i'm willing to wait for it. i'm willing to wait for it! >> rose: played by leslie odom, jr., burr's jealousy buildstil their fateful meeting on the dueling ground. >> chernow: the bullet hit him actually on the right side just above the hip. spine. >> rose: by the time they faced off in weehawkin, new jersey, burr was a lame duck vicen, just shy of his 50th birthday, was practicing law. how could that happen? >> chernow: think of duels, charlie, as a violent form of conflict resolution. very frustrated. it seemed like at every turn,

you know, blocking his path.in a letter before the duel. he said, "there was no way this could have been avoided. we have been circling each other for a while. it was always going to come to this."g to happen. >> miranda: this was going to happen. they're fundamentally different men. and they run in concentric circles until they meet. >> tommy kail: and everything >> rose: miranda and his director, tommy kail, staged the intensifying rivalry between the two men. ah! pretty cool, right? >> rose: really cool. the turntable was essential. >> miranda: i imagine death so much it feels more like a memory... >> rose: many historians,elieve hamilton deliberately fired into the air, throwing away his shot. >> miranda: wait! miscalculation. >> miranda: i hear wailing in the streetsou better hide... here's the thing about hamilton.

die from the time he was 14 years old.has is what i have, which is that thing of, "tomorrow's not promised. i got to get as much done as i can." ( applause )are saying it's transformative. >> miranda: it certainly changes my life. but i think it's because, whenss our path-- and i'm talking about hamilton here-- it forces us to reckon with what we're doing with our lives, you know?s treasury secretary and creating our financial system from scratch. >> rose: and building a country? >> miranda: yeah. i wrote two plays. : i'm not throwing away my shot... >> the making of the "hamilton" cast album. go to 60minutesovertime.com. before i had the shooting, burning, pins-and-needles of diabetic nerve pain,

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