Central Park Five exoneree speaks at Death Penalty Forum at Notre Dame

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- This week Notre Dame Law School students and professors are voicing their concerns about the death penalty, seeking to abolish capital punishment.

Today, the university hosted Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated Central Park five, who was wrongfully convicted in 1990 of a rape and assault that he did not commit in New York City.

At the time, some, including President Donald Trump, called for the death penalty of Yusef and the others, who were all eventually proven innocent by DNA testing in 2002.

Now, Salaam is a motivational speaker, and an elected member of the New York City Council.

"I'm not going to sit here at your table and watch you eat and call myself dinner. Sitting here at your table doesn't make me dinner, just like being here in America, hasn't made me an American," stated Salaam.

Yusef Salaam was only 15 when he and four others were arrested in the Central Park Jogger Case, tomorrow Notre Dame will host exoneree Lamont Hunter, who spent nearly 18 years on Ohio's death row before having his sentenced overturned.