In an act transcending politics, tens of thousands successfully banded together to make the case against executing Charles \u2018Sonny\u2019 Burton in Alabama<\/p>\n
With all of his appeals exhausted, Charles \u201cSonny\u201d Burton had already chosen the last meal he would have before being put to death by nitrogen gas at Alabama<\/a>\u2019s Holman correctional facility: barbecue chicken, banana cake with ice cream, and sweet tea \u2013 all things he hadn\u2019t been able to enjoy in years with his diabetes.<\/p>\n The writing seemed to be on the wall. His fate was in the hands of Kay Ivey, Alabama\u2019s governor and a staunch supporter of capital punishment who has presided over more than 25 executions<\/a> \u2013 more than any other Alabama governor since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Her office had been repeating the same line for weeks: \u201cGovernor Ivey has no plans to grant clemency.\u201d But on the morning of 10 March, just two days before Sonny was to be put to death, Ivey commuted his sentence<\/a> to life without parole.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In an act transcending politics, tens of thousands successfully banded together to make the case against executing Charles \u2018Sonny\u2019 Burton in Alabama With all of his appeals exhausted, Charles \u201cSonny\u201d Burton had already chosen the last meal he would have before being put to death by nitrogen gas at Alabama\u2019s Holman correctional facility: barbecue chicken, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}