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KNC story: "Witness to Innocence" Tour Comes to KY
Public News Service Nov 18, 2013
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“Witness to Innocence" Tour Comes to KY
Greg Stotelmyer , Public News Service-KY
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(21/18/13) CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. - In Kentucky, where execution remains legal, opponents of the death penalty are
hoping personal stories will help lead to change. That's why Sabrina Butler Porter isin the state, on an eight-day "Witness
to Innocence" tour. Butler Porter spent five years in prison in Mississippi, three of those years on death row, for the death
cof her infant son. Eventually exonerated, she believes the death penalty is "wrong" and said it does not deter crime.
"You know, they/re saying ‘Okay, you went out here, you committed this crime, so we're going to kill you for it" But in
actuality, they'e doing the same thing,” she declared. "They're doing the same thing,
Butler Porter was 17 years old when she found her infant son, Walter, had stopped breathing, She says she tried to revive
bhim, but by the time he reached the emergency room, it was too late. She was arrested the next day, convicted of murder
and sentenced to die in 1990. After 33 months on death row, the Mississippi Supreme Court averturned the conviction,
finding that her son's death had been the result ofa kidney- elated illness, and that the bruises on his body were from
bis mothers efforts to save him.
Death penalty opponents want Kentucky lawmakers to make life without parole the state's maximum sentence. Butler
Porter pointed out that, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, 143 death row inmates have been fully
‘exonerated since 1973.
“And I'm the only female .. and that's a lot of mistakes that the system has made,” she said. “And I mean, Tm sure it's
‘more than that they have killed already, you know, and these are lives that ...they just murdered 'em, the state just
‘murdered ‘em’
Butler Porter said she was able to survive on death row, in part, by keeping a journal. Bitter at fist, she said she has
learned to accept what happened to her and spread her story.
“My message is what God wants me to do and it's also healing to me, because the more Italk about it the better I'm able
to deal with i” she said. "It helps me: spiritually, and mentally, physically, everything. It really helps me.
Butler Porter has been married for 18 years and has three children. She will speak on seven college campuses in the next
week, beginning tonight at Campbellsvlle University. Dates and times are on the Kentucky ACLU website,
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