Sabrina Butler (born 1971) is a Mississippi woman and former death row inmate who was acquitted at a retrial after being convicted as a teenager for the alleged murder and child abuse of her nine-month-old son, Walter Dean Butler.
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- The Youngest and the First: The Exoneration of Sabrina Butler Audiobook by Sabrina T. Butler-SmithTurn on Your Ears and Let the Stories Take You on a Wild Ride With Full Audiobook · 2026
- #158 Jason Flom with Sabrina ButlerWrongful Conviction · 2020
- CPR Gone Wrong; Sabrina ButlerFinal Word · 2023
- Sabrina Butler Smith - Put on Death Row for a Crime She Didn’t CommitBRAVE JOURNEYS with TAMMI FARADAY · 2021
- S3: The Innocents - Sabrina Butler SmithAlex Hannaford presents Huddled Masses · 2020
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