Lowdown S1E9: Sabrina Butler — Transcript

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1. 0:01a simple jog around her Mississippi
2. 0:02neighborhood quickly spiraled into a
3. 0:04case of capital murder at the age of 18
4. 0:07Sabrina Porter was wrongfully convicted
5. 0:08of killing her 9-month-old son well I
6. 0:10was sentenced to die and I'm hoping to
7. 0:13you know get people to know what's going
8. 0:16on it's just not just seeing a face just
9. 0:19knowing that this I'm a real person so
10. 0:21that's when they charged me with capital
11. 0:23murder it put me in that um jail Cale I
12. 0:27wouldn't wish that on anybody um to be
13. 0:29sentenced for crime that you didn't
14. 0:30commit you know being placed on death
15. 0:32row knowing your life is before you it's
16. 0:35it's it's very hard during her sixth a
17. 0:38half years in prison Porter spent 2
18. 0:40years and 9 months on death row and she
19. 0:42was innocent first time instead of going
20. 0:45through all these different I saw my
21. 0:46attorneys two days before trial after I
22. 0:49had already sit in the county jail for
23. 0:50one year so you know i' had no
24. 0:53preparation I didn't know what I was
25. 0:55supposed to do as far as the jury um I
26. 0:58really didn't I didn't understand what
27. 0:59was going on on really Sabrina has a
28. 1:01passion to change the face of sentencing
29. 1:03in our country as well as investigations
30. 1:05and the way suspects are treated kept
31. 1:07trying to tell them the truth you know
32. 1:09they don't want to hear that I think
33. 1:11race played a role in my case because uh
34. 1:13it was not a jury of my peers um it was
35. 1:16just the way the whole court system
36. 1:18thing was set up you know you could just
37. 1:19really you could tell that it was
38. 1:21racially motivated I paced the
39. 1:24floors listen for and she's a part of
40. 1:27the witness to Innocence Project she's
41. 1:29an advocate for ending the death penalty
42. 1:30in the United States I was to tell you
43. 1:32that I was going to actually die and I
44. 1:36want the younger generation to to really
45. 1:38take a look at the justice system and I
46. 1:39think that they can go in and approve a
47. 1:41lot of things that have been um messed
48. 1:43up for so many years and that's the
49. 1:45reason why I like to talk to the youth
50. 1:47because they are our future and I feel
51. 1:49like you guys can you know change things
52. 1:51it may not happen in my lifetime but I I
53. 1:54think it will in you guys so we caught
54. 1:57up with student Blain Hubert who was
55. 1:59very passionate about the nights event
56. 2:01and had a few words to
57. 2:03share I feel like I I learned
58. 2:10that not every case is cut and dry not
59. 2:13everyone who gets the death penalty
60. 2:14deserves it and definitely not everyone
61. 2:15that
62. 2:17gets executed via death penalty is
63. 2:20innocent or is guilty I'm sorry lman
64. 2:23says she just wants to share her story
65. 2:25so that other people don't have to go
66. 2:26through what she went through we're
67. 2:27watching you you know because if get
68. 2:30behind that and start making them hold
69. 2:32somebody reporting for Lowdown I'm
70. 2:34Adrianne
71. 2:35Columbus