Alabama governor commutes death sentence of inmate
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The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday.
Charles "Sonny" Burton is set to be executed in Alabama for participating in a robbery in which his accomplice fatally shot a man.
Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Sonny Burton, who was set to be executed this week for a murder in which he didn't pull the trigger.