"Ivey said in a statement that while she believes "the death penalty is just punishment for society's most heinous offenders," she also believes "it would be unjust for one participant in this crime to be executed while the participant who pulled the trigger was not.""
"Burton was convicted of capital murder for the 1991 shooting of Doug Battle during the robbery of an AutoZone store in Talladega, Alabama. Burton participated in the robbery but had left the building when an accomplice, Derrick DeBruce, shot and killed Battle inside, a witness testified at trial."
""No one from the State has ever sat with me to explain why Alabama believes it must execute a man who did not kill my father," Tori Battle, Battle's daughter, wrote in a December op-ed in the Montgomery Advertiser and other Alabama news outlets."
Charles Burton, 75, spent 30 years on death row for a 1991 AutoZone robbery killing in Alabama. Burton participated in the robbery but left before his accomplice Derrick DeBruce shot and killed store employee Doug Battle. A jury convicted Burton of capital murder based on his robbery participation and recommended death. DeBruce's death sentence was later overturned due to inadequate legal counsel; he died in prison in 2020. Governor Ivey commuted Burton's sentence to life without parole, stating it would be unjust to execute Burton while DeBruce was not executed. Burton's supporters, including jurors who convicted him and Battle's family, opposed his execution.
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