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Walter D. Butler was 4 months old in this particular photo, creased by thousands of heartbroken touches. Five months later, on April 11, 1989, little Walter was dead. And his mother was bound for Mississippi’s death row.
When Sabrina was acquitted of murder, she had spent more than five years in prison and thirty-three months on death row. She is the first of two women in the United States to be exonerated from death row, the other being Debra Milke in Arizona.
May 16, 2013 · She was convicted in a February 1997 murder plot that targeted her husband in suburban Atlanta. Women make up fewer than 2% of the inmates sentenced to die on death row in the United...
May 30, 2014 · There was no murder at all. I was 25 years old when I was finally found innocent. I am the only woman ever exonerated and freed from death row in the United States.
- Sabrina Butler
Sabrina Butler-Smith was a loving teenage mother when she was wrongfully convicted in the death of her nine-month-old son, Walter, in Mississippi. She was later exonerated of all wrongdoing, after spending six and a half years incarcerated, two of those years on death row.
Jun 3, 2014 · Sabrina Butler (pictured), the only woman among the 144 people exonerated from death row since 1973, recently told her story in TIME Magainze. Butler was just 17 years old when she went to check on her infant son and found he had stopped breathing.
Aug 14, 2021 · Mum spends three years on death row after coming home to find her baby dead. Sabrina Butler-Smith, 50, from Mississippi, was branded a 'child killer' and had to fight other inmates in prison...
