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Sabrina Smith was only 17 when a predominately White Mississippi jury convicted her in 1989 for fatally beating her 9-month-old son.
"The judge said, 'we sentence you to death by lethal injection. May God have mercy on your soul,'" she recalled. "All I could say was, 'may God have mercy on your soul because you don't know what you just did.'" Eyewitness testimony and medical evidence that was produced during the first trial would later reveal that Smith's baby died from kidney disease.More Related News

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