Sonny pictured with family and friends the day after his commutation. He had been scheduled to die the following day. ATMORE, Ala.—It’s hard for Sonny Burton to wipe the smile off his face. “I dodged death,” he told Tread inside the visitor’s room at Holman Correctional Facility, the maximum-security prison where death row is housed.It was true. Burton had been just two days away from Alabama prison guards strapping a gas mask to his face and su…
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