Sabrina Butler Visits St Augustine — Transcript

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1. 0:08this is personal TV we find ourselves
2. 0:12here with Sabrina Butler if you don't
3. 0:15know but Sabrina Butler well she is the
4. 0:18first woman who was on death row and
5. 0:21walked away from it and today lives a
6. 0:24very good life God's been good after all
7. 0:30the pain and suffering now Sabrina you
8. 0:33are from what state from columbus
9. 0:35mississippi while ms mississippi and how
10. 0:38old were you when you went into into
11. 0:40prisons everything mala loves every day
12. 0:43Wow and you were accused of water a
13. 0:45little chat mm-hmm and it took how long
14. 0:48before the before justice proof that was
15. 0:51on through six and a half years I spent
16. 0:5320 years now it's on death row Wow if
17. 0:56you had to explain that for all in it
18. 0:59just one or two sentences how would you
19. 1:03describe to be on death row horrible
20. 1:06horrible okay I can't put that in the
21. 1:09sentence I mean it's just immeasurable
22. 1:11as to what happens to a person being
23. 1:15especially being accused of a crime they
24. 1:17didn't commit and you being placed is
25. 1:20torture it's not only that but you lost
26. 1:22your your little baby um another
27. 1:25question I have for you so when were you
28. 1:28released when did you step on a December
29. 1:3017th of 1995 and you've been doing what
30. 1:34since then I've been speaking and
31. 1:36talking about my case trying to raise my
32. 1:39children since near now you're married
33. 1:41now and you have a hundred married 20
34. 1:43years I have three children um my
35. 1:47daughter has the same disease my son
36. 1:50back from and I have 18 year old and a
37. 1:5229 year old my life is still a struggle
38. 1:55in many ways
39. 1:56it really is but I guess compared to
40. 1:58death row it's better yeah it's
41. 2:01everything's relative at the guy in
42. 2:02Stein was right right and what do you
43. 2:05want to what what is the awareness that
44. 2:07you want to bring to the rest of the
45. 2:09population that probably isn't aware of
46. 2:12what happens behind those prison walls
47. 2:14no I mean if you don't have a strong
48. 2:16constitution it's really horrible i mean
49. 2:19it's is torture like i said and i think
50. 2:22that we need to change the system I mean
51. 2:25the system has a lot of errors and as
52. 2:27long as we have those errors we're going
53. 2:29to keep making mistakes like they did in
54. 2:32my case would you say there's a lot of
55. 2:34people behind bars who should not be
56. 2:35behind I would say that yes and and
57. 2:39unfortunately it's racially motivated
58. 2:41and that's the sad part but that's a
59. 2:44fact right and you've come here to talk
60. 2:46that the unitarian universalist church
61. 2:48yes I come to speak to them hopefully to
62. 2:52you know tilting my story and open the
63. 2:54hearts and minds and you know see what
64. 2:57you know what can be done with Florida's
65. 3:00statues on death penalty and things like
66. 3:03that hoping it'll bring about awareness
67. 3:05and change how many times a year do you
68. 3:08talk to groups what I do is often as a
69. 3:10cannon doesn't I don't have a set time I
70. 3:13just do it when I'm of it want to meet
71. 3:14it all right now what do you think is
72. 3:16the reception how would you what how do
73. 3:19people receive you I have been received
74. 3:21great i mean people love to talk to meee
75. 3:23knows especially once they hear my story
76. 3:26yeah yeah i saw you there in that room
77. 3:28or all those people a moment ago you
78. 3:30were telling them a little bit of what
79. 3:32you're going to talk about tomorrow
80. 3:33january twenty first but there was a lot
81. 3:36of love in that room for you yeah not
82. 3:38appreciated they were really they're
83. 3:39really nice walleyes i thank you very
84. 3:42much and if anybody wanted to know a
85. 3:44little bit more zero website or a place
86. 3:46that could go to phone get more well you
87. 3:48can look me up on facebook and mostly
88. 3:50most of the time every speaking
89. 3:52engagement that i went to i talked about
90. 3:53it what I've done and my book is are at
91. 3:57Sabrina Butler webs Sabrina Butler
92. 4:00Williams calm but unfortunately right
93. 4:02now I'm out of books so you just have to
94. 4:04keep checking into
95. 4:05and the title of that book is exonerated
96. 4:07this to bring about the story all right
97. 4:09well you know I hope your story inspires
98. 4:12a lot of people with courage not just
99. 4:15those behind bars but those on the
100. 4:18outside who can make the change to help
101. 4:20those people well that's what we need
102. 4:21because see without the people on the
103. 4:23outside we don't have a voice when
104. 4:26you're behind those bars you need
105. 4:27someone outside to speak for those it's
106. 4:29inside right I saw a lot of petitions a
107. 4:31lot of things to move this forward and
108. 4:34or not I thank you i think our community
109. 4:37needs people like you who bring this
110. 4:40story to the front then and see what we
111. 4:43can do to change this world