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🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It was late on the night of April 11, 1989, when a single teenage mother of two, Sabrina |
| 0:08.8 | Butler went for a jog while her two young boys slept at home. |
| 0:12.6 | When she returned and checked on her nine-month-old Walter, he wasn't breathing. |
| 0:17.7 | With no phone and in a new apartment building, Sabrina picked him up and banged frantically |
| 0:23.0 | on her neighbor's doors, begging for help. |
| 0:25.5 | Finally, a woman let her in and showed Sabrina how to perform adult CPR on her infant son. |
| 0:32.7 | At the hospital, they couldn't figure out what was wrong with Walter and they blamed |
| 0:36.5 | his internal injuries on child abuse. |
| 0:39.4 | Sabrina was aggressively interrogated well into the morning hours and a statement was drafted |
| 0:44.8 | for her to sign, accounting for the damage to his internal organs, a common result of |
| 0:50.0 | performing adult CPR on an infant. |
| 0:53.4 | Spired, alone and scared, Sabrina signed underneath the dotted line as an act of protest. |
| 1:01.4 | A parade of medical professionals and her coer statement made Sabrina's night meal deeply |
| 1:07.0 | look like a callous lie sending her to Mississippi's death row. |
| 1:12.2 | Her novice trial lawyer contacted civil rights attorney and death penalty activist Clive |
| 1:17.1 | Stafford Smith, whose investigation discovered and confirmed why Walter had stopped breathing |
| 1:22.4 | in the first place. |
| 1:24.0 | He suffered from chronic and frotic syndrome brought on by polycystic kidney disease. |
| 1:29.8 | Sabrina Butler is the first female death row exonery in the United States. |
| 1:36.3 | This is wrongful conviction with Jason Flour. |
| 1:44.1 | I'm Amber Reffett and I'm her gorgeous sister, Lacey Lamar. |
| 1:46.9 | If, in fact, Lacey is not that gorgeous. |
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