mr. stevenson, i heard you opened an office. i've got an execution date in 30 days. will you take my case?" and i started-- >> 30 days? >> 30 days. and i started saying, "wait, wait, wait. we don't have books. we don't have staff. i don't have anything. i'm not ready to take an execution case." and the guy got quiet. and he said, "but i need a lawyer." and i said, "i'm sorry. i can't." and then he hung up, which just broke my heart. couldn't sleep that night. came back the next day. and the guy called me again. he said, "mr. stevenson, i know what you said." he said, "but i'm begging you, please take my case." he said, "you don't have to tell me you can win. you don't have to tell me you can stop the execution." he said, "but i don't think i can make it the next 29 days if there's no hope at all." and when he put it like that, i couldn't say no. so i said yes. tried very hard to get a stay of execution. and one of the perversities of our system right now is that our courts are more committed to finality than fairness. they're just tryin' to get to the end. >> while t

mr. stevenson your comments which is as we all know the vast majority of 100 percent promotions if not the entirety are built by nonprofit developers and indeed you're absolutely right which is unlike for profit developers if we want to continue to develop they have is to develop the relationships and deal with the community input in order to remain viable different than nor arrogant privately financed capital that wants to have its way my experiences have been very, very good sfaeshthd i e as a matter of fact the opportunity for community input and dialogue has made projects bettered like project o at market octavia we saw that in the north beach and mr. stewart left when he was speaking about the four and a half years i had a seat with ronnie davis was head of the hugdz overseeing 3e78dz were not impedes from joining neighborhood bye bye the housing or housing authority for their failure to come up with a ambulance for hundreds of residents ♪ facility i think that is a learning lesson interestingly enough the community that lives around myself and many others that wanted to build a dense

mr. stevenson your comments which is as we all know the vast majority of 100 percent promotions if not the entirety are built by nonprofit developers and indeed you're absolutely right which is unlike for profit developers if we want to continue to develop they have is to develop the relationships and deal with the community input in order to remain viable different than nor arrogant privately financed capital that wants to have its way my experiences have been very, very good sfaeshthd i e as a matter of fact the opportunity for community input and dialogue has made projects bettered like project o at market octavia we saw that in the north beach and mr. stewart left when he was speaking about the four and a half years i had a seat with ronnie davis was head of the hugdz overseeing 3e78dz were not impedes from joining neighborhood bye bye the housing or housing authority for their failure to come up with a ambulance for hundreds of residents ♪ facility i think that is a learning lesson interestingly enough the community that lives around myself and many others that wanted to build a dense

mr. stevenson your comments which is as we all know the vast majority of 100 percent promotions if not the entirety are built by nonprofit developers and indeed you're absolutely right which is unlike for profit developers if we want to continue to develop they have is to develop the relationships and deal with the community input in order to remain viable different than nor arrogant privately financed capital that wants to have its way my experiences have been very, very good sfaeshthd i e as a matter of fact the opportunity for community input and dialogue has made projects bettered like project o at market octavia we saw that in the north beach and mr. stewart left when he was speaking about the four and a half years i had a seat with ronnie davis was head of the hugdz overseeing 3e78dz were not impedes from joining neighborhood bye bye the housing or housing authority for their failure to come up with a ambulance for hundreds of residents ♪ facility i think that is a learning lesson interestingly enough the community that lives around myself and many others that wanted to build a dense

mr. stevenson who was my history teacher who felt i had potential and he really worked with me. mrs. crawford, who was my science teacher. i always thrived in the math and the sciences in school. i always thrived, but they developed me. mr. watson. you know, i have never had a sports bone in my body. i have never been athletic. i could never make it like a lot of athletes today, but, anyhow, he made me manager of the basketball team and i kept the score and it gave me an interesting outlook about sports and about how life sort of mimics the basketball court and the arena sports. i learned so much from that, and then bill jones. bill jones was over 4h in my county. he got me into livestock judging where i would judge swine and i would judge cattle. and he got me to become a public speaker where i got into debates and the debate forums around the state to the point where i won the debate contest two years in a row as a sophomore and a junior in high school. and then my brother alvin followed and won the same. and so these people had a very significant impact on my life. and the henders

mr. stevenson your comments which is as we all know the vast majority of 100 percent promotions if not the entirety are built by nonprofit developers and indeed you're absolutely right which is unlike for profit developers if we want to continue to develop they have is to develop the relationships and deal with the community input in order to remain viable different than nor arrogant privately financed capital that wants to have its way my experiences have been very, very good sfaeshthd i e as a matter of fact the opportunity for community input and dialogue has made projects bettered like project o at market octavia we saw that in the north beach and mr. stewart left when he was speaking about the four and a half years i had a seat with ronnie davis was head of the hugdz overseeing 3e78dz were not impedes from joining neighborhood bye bye the housing or housing authority for their failure to come up with a ambulance for hundreds of residents ♪ facility i think that is a learning lesson interestingly enough the community that lives around myself and many others that wanted to build a dense

stevenson: this isn't luck, this was a system. this was actually our justice system. for the police officers who arrested mr. hinton; our tax dollars that paid for the judge and the prosecutor that prosecuted him; that paid for the experts who got it wrong; that paid to keep him on death row for 30 years for a crime he didn't commit. 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. >> pelley: ray hinton is considering applying for compensation, but alabama has paid only one exoneree after 41 claims. in the meantime, attorney bryan stevenson has been hinton's guide to advances like a.t.m.s and smart phones, and to frustrations that never change, like getting a license at the d.m.v. >> hinton: whether i ever catch up with the world, i don't know, but i'm going to try. >> pelley: hinton is working part-time now, speaking about >> hinton: i just never, never believed that god would allow me to die for something that i didn't do. i didn't know how he was going to work it out, but i believed that he would work it out. i can't