Alabama set to execute man who did not kill anyone [View all]

This is brutal.

“I shouldn’t die for something I haven’t done,” Burton told NBC News in a phone interview Monday from William C. Holman Correctional Facility, the site of the state’s execution chamber, where he has spent more than 30 years on death row.
“Felony murder allows for everybody involved in the underlying offense to be treated by the legal system as if they committed an intentional murder,” says Nazgol Ghandnoosh, director of research at The Sentencing Project, an advocacy group

In 1991, Burton was one of six men involved in the robbery of a AutoZone store in Talladega that ended with the murder of a customer, Doug Battle.

Burton admits to entering the store armed with a gun. He said he stole cash from a safe in the back room, then fled outside to wait by a getaway car.

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