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Alabama man facing execution for deadly robbery asks for clemency as he didn’t kill victim
Charles Burton, 75, faces execution despite not pulling the trigger; over 60,000 petition clemency citing his frail health and jury support for commuting his sentence.
- Charles Sonny Burton is scheduled for execution on March 12 for a 1991 robbery during which Doug Battle was killed by another man, though Burton did not shoot the victim.
- Burton's supporters, including jurors and Battle's daughter, have requested clemency from Governor Kay Ivey, but she has declined, citing multiple judicial reviews.
- Derrick DeBruce, the co-robber who killed Doug Battle, was sentenced to life and has since died in prison.
- Legal experts note that the U.S. Supreme Court permits the execution of individuals involved in felonies where a killing occurred, but some raise concerns about fairness in cases like Burton's.
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Dothan EagleVictim’s family, jurors want clemency. Alabama set to execute Sonny Burton anyway
Alabama is set to kill Sonny Burton on Thursday. Governor Kay Ivey must stop it.
The marquee at Montgomery’s Capri Theatre. (Photo by Lee Hedgepeth.)An execution is set for Thursday that has already rightfully gotten a lot of attention — even in this era of the U.S. Supreme Court virtually never interceding to stop executions from taking place.Alabama is scheduled to kill Charles “Sonny” Burton for a murder that everyone agrees he did not commit. As the Alabama Reflector’s Ralph Chapoco explained, “He did not pull the trigge…
A 75-year-old man sentenced to death in Alabama must be executed on Thursday, even though he never killed anyone.
Charles Burton has been in prison in the U.S. for more than 30 years. He never killed anyone, but is still supposed to die because of a controversial law.
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