HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – A local defense attorney and others throughout the state weigh in on the big decision to spare a death row inmate’s life.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton, a man who had been on death row for 35 years and was two days away from execution.
Burton was convicted of capital murder in connection with the 1991 robbery of an AutoZone in Talladega, during which customer Doug Battle was killed…