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Sabrina Butler Smith Was 1 of 2 Women Exonerated off Death Row
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Dec 2, 202111:08Now PlayingSabrina Butler Smith was just 17 years old when a predominantly white Mississippi jury convicted her in 1989 for fatally beating her 9-month-old son, Walter, and a judge sentenced her to death by lethal injection.
It wasn’t until several years later that an independent medical investigation found that her son had died from a genetic kidney disease.
Butler Smith spent almost seven years in prison and about three of those years were in a small cell on death row, where she spent 23 hours a day with no human contact before being cleared of all charges in 1995.
She joins Yodit Tewolde on “Making the Case” via phone to discuss her case.
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