Strange Fruit

Sabrina Butler Porter was 17 when she found her baby Walter unresponsive, not breathing. Her attempts at CPR to save his life resulted in bruising that lead police to accuse her of child abuse. She was wrongfully convicted of her baby's murder and spent more than 6 years in prison – nearly three of those on death row. "Being on death row, I wasn't told that the state had to exhaust all remedies before they could actually carry out the death sentence," she explained. "I paced the floor every day," she remembers, "trying to figure out when they coming to kill me." Porter's conviction was overturned when new lawyers took her case and it was discovered that Walter had died of kidney disease. She now works with Witness to Innocence, an organization that helps death row exonerees become advocates against the death penalty. Between her speaking engagements in Kentucky last week, she stopped by our studios to tell her story and talk about how her experiences shaped her view of the crimin