Charles Lee Burton

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Charles Lee "Sonny" Burton Jr. (born November 20, 1950) is an American convicted murderer who had previously been on death row in Alabama for the murder of a patron during a 1991 robbery case prior to the commutation of his sentence to life imprisonment. On August 16, 1991, Burton and five other men participated in the robbery of an AutoZone store in Talladega, Alabama, and during the robbery, one of Burton's accomplices, Derrick DeBruce, shot a patron of the store, Doug Battle, and the victim died as a result. Despite not being the shooter, Burton was deemed the mastermind and sentenced to death together with DeBruce, in accordance with an Alabama law that allowed a participant of a felony robbery to be convicted of murder even if they did not cause any death(s). Although DeBruce's death sentence was later commuted to life without parole, Burton's death sentence was upheld through multiple appeals and he was originally scheduled to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia on March 12, 2026. His...

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