Summary Of The Death Penalty By Sabrina Butler

Upon celebrating the 20 anniversary of being released, today, Sabrina Butler works as the assistant director of membership and training at the Witness to Innocence program. Together with her husband and three children, Sabrina now lives a normal life back in Columbus, Mississippi. When she reflects on the hardship that she has experienced, Sabrina stands firmly behind the idea that death penalty should be abolished entirely: “even if every reform was adopted, innocent people would still get convicted and sent to death row,” she said. She believes that “as long as human beings are in charge, they will make mistakes.” Butler contends that if death penalty cannot assure that all inmates on death row are utterly guilty, the criminal justice system should not risk the chance to execute innocent people. …show more content…
Ethnic minority and poor person of colors are prone to become victims of unlawful convictions. Their social economic background are generally not in favor of pave the way for this group of individuals to petition for justice and to at least, obtain the access for legal resources. Changes do not materialized overnight. In order to eliminate the horrific situation of unlawful convictions, we must come to the realization that if we are at the helm of facilitating and generating leeway for unlawful convictions, we too, have the ultimate capacity to trim the thorns that diminish vulnerable individuals’ hopes for