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Alabama Governor Pardons Death Row Inmate

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Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday pardoned Charles Burton, who was sentenced to death in 1991 for not killing anyone but was merely an accomplice in a crime that involved a murder, CNN reported. Burton was scheduled to be executed on Thursday.

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Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday pardoned Charles Burton, who was sentenced to death in 1991 for not killing anyone but was merely an accomplice in a crime that involved a murder, CNN reported. Burton was scheduled to be executed on Thursday.

Charles Burton, 75, has never killed anyone. Yet the state of Alabama was preparing to execute him on March 12. The man could have died because of a law that allows people to be convicted of murder even if they did not pull the trigger during the crime. The real killer was pardoned by the court long ago.

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An innocent prisoner but sentenced to death escaped the supreme sentence in Alabama (United States), following a pardon granted by the governor of this American state...

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In 1991 a robbery in the U.S., a man is shot and two men are sentenced to death. The sentence against the shooter is later converted into life imprisonment, now the governor of Alabama decides: his accomplice is also allowed to live.

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rnd.de broke the news in Germany on Tuesday, March 10, 2026.
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