US EditionAlabama Man Faces Execution Despite Not Pulling Trigger in 1991 Killing; Victim's Daughter Urges Clemency
Jurors and the victim's daughter seek mercy for Charles Burton, who did not shoot the victim; Alabama allows execution of accomplices under felony-murder laws.
- Charles Sonny Burton, 75, faces execution in Alabama for his role as an accomplice in a 1991 robbery where customer Doug Battle was killed, despite not pulling the trigger.
- The victim's daughter is among those urging the governor to grant clemency to Burton, and three of the eight living jurors from the 1992 trial say they never would have recommended a death sentence if the shooter was getting a lesser sentence.
- Alabama's Attorney General's office opposed the clemency request, stating Burton's conviction and death sentence have been upheld at every level.
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Alabama man faces execution despite not pulling trigger in 1991 killing; victim's daughter urges clemency
Charles "Sonny" Burton faces execution in Alabama for his role in a 1991 robbery in which a man was fatally shot, even though Burton did not fire the gun or witness the killing.
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Alabama man faces execution despite not pulling the trigger in auto store customer's death
Charles “Sonny” Burton faces execution in Alabama for his role in a 1991 robbery in which a man was fatally shot, even though Burton did not fire the gun or witness the killing.
Victim’s Daughter and Former Juror Oppose Execution of Alabama Man Who Officials Acknowledges Did Not Pull the Trigger
Two women intimately connected to a 1991 murder case in Alabama have publicly opposed the intended execution of Charles “Sonny” Burton, a man both the state and his attorneys acknowledge did not fire the fatal shot. Priscilla Townsend, who served on the jury that sentenced Mr. Burton to death, and Tori Battle, whose father Doug Battle was killed during the robbery in question, have each written op-eds urging Governor Kay Ivey t…
Charles "Sonny" Burton killed no one. Alabama plans to suffocate him anyway.
Sonny Burton’s family hopes Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey will spare his life. Photo by Lee HedgepethSonny Burton can no longer walk. His loved ones worry that, should the time come, prison staffers will have to roll the 75-year-old into Alabama’s execution chamber on a gurney. One final indignity, they say, for a man the state admits never killed a soul. And sometimes Eddie Mae Ellison worries that her older brother, Charles “Sonny” Burton, is already …
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