Sabrina Butler: Exonerated from Death Row — Transcript

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1. 0:00you're sitting there waiting
2. 0:03for them to kill you sabrina butler
3. 0:05knows exactly what it feels like to sit
4. 0:08on death row
5. 0:09in 1990 the state of mississippi
6. 0:11convicted her of capital murder for the
7. 0:13death of her nine-month-old son
8. 0:15walter butler was then sentenced to
9. 0:18death but after a re-trial two years
10. 0:20later her conviction was overturned
11. 0:23butler who still lives in columbus says
12. 0:25the pending execution for michelle byram
13. 0:28really hits home for her when i heard
14. 0:30and came across
15. 0:31miss byron's case it really hurt me
16. 0:34because
17. 0:35well all of them do but she is actually
18. 0:37in the same
19. 0:38correctional facility where i was and on
20. 0:41the same death row
21. 0:42butler was just 17 years old when she
22. 0:44was convicted and spent six and a half
23. 0:46years behind bars
24. 0:48she now travels the country speaking out
25. 0:50against the death penalty as a member of
26. 0:52the group
27. 0:53witness to innocence she feels obligated
28. 0:56to advocate for inmates and believes
29. 0:58no matter the crime death is not the
30. 1:01answer
31. 1:01i just think that you cannot say
32. 1:04to a person that has committed a crime
33. 1:06that you are a murderer and you deserve
34. 1:08to die
35. 1:09and then you turn around and do to them
36. 1:11what you're telling them they're wrong
37. 1:13for doing
38. 1:14i mean you're just as guilty as they are
39. 1:16you killing them i mean that's kill
40. 1:17that's murder
41. 1:19murder is murder it doesn't matter how
42. 1:20you do it the mississippi supreme court
43. 1:23ruled that the prosecution failed to
44. 1:25prove that her son's death was not an
45. 1:27accident it's now believed that butler's
46. 1:29son most likely died from polycystic
47. 1:32kidney disease
48. 1:33butler has been married for 18 years and
49. 1:36has had
50. 1:36two more children her nine-year-old
51. 1:39daughter also
52. 1:40has the same kidney disease tell me what
53. 1:42it feels like to be the only woman in
54. 1:45america to have been
55. 1:46exonerated after being sentenced to
56. 1:48death row
57. 1:49it's lonely it's scary
58. 1:52butler has also written a book exoneree
59. 1:55the sabrina butler story
60. 1:57i hope that i can make a change by
61. 1:59speaking out and changing the system as
62. 2:01it is as it currently is because it does
63. 2:03not work in its present state
64. 2:04currently there are 50 people in the
65. 2:06state of mississippi on death row
66. 2:09in columbus lamonica peters wcbi news