Tag: CHARLES BURTON

Laura G. Clark: Speeding up the death penalty is justice

People do not get the death penalty because they did minor crimes. They get it for brutal and depraved murders of children, friends, relatives and strangers. It is in the state’s best interest to move these executions along. It is cruel to the victims’ families to wait 20+ years to see justice.

Muslim civil rights group CAIR backs Ivey on 'Sonny' Burton death sentence commutation

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) came out in support of Gov. Kay Ivey’s decision to commute the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton, a man who served over three decades on Alabama’s death row.

'Blood on his hands': AG Marshall slams Ivey for commuting Charles 'Sonny' Burton death sentence

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said a man whose death sentence was commuted on Tuesday by Gov. Kay Ivey was nothing but a career criminal who could have been put to death a long time ago.