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Hey there, folks.

It is Wednesday, March 11th, and an execution scheduled for tomorrow night has been called off for a man who has been on death row for 35 years convicted of murder.

But everybody agrees he didn't actually kill anybody.

And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Roble, we should start

with just how rare this is. A lot of executions get scheduled. It is rare for we have a governor

to step in and commute a sentence, and this governor is in a state not necessarily known

for commutations. That is all very true. but this case was exceptional because you mentioned, yes,

Charles Sonny Burton, by all accounts, never killed anyone, but let's take that even a step

further. He never directed anyone to kill someone. He wasn't even in the same room where someone was murdered.

And the person who pulled the trigger isn't on death row.

All of that is just kind of head scratching.

And it all rose to a fever pitch this week.

And yes.

So what we're talking about here, folks, the state I was talking about is Alabama. Alabama is known for, if you will, executions. They often do lead or up there in the top list every year of the number of executions that they do pull off. And Alabama, in fact, just a couple of years ago, led Texas in the number of executions they have in one year, just to give you an idea.

The governor there has only done this twice in her history.

This came after a significant amount of pressure.

Again, Robes the case we're talking about here.

Charles Burton is the guy's name. But this is one of those cases where someone ends up charged and convicted

of murder that didn't actually kill anybody, but they were a part of a crime that led to a murder

and robes. That is the type of law that sometimes is under scrutiny, but it's on the books

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