Charles "Sonny" Burton, 75, is scheduled to be executed in Alabama next month, despite his claim that he was unaware anyone would be harmed during the 1991 AutoZone robbery that led to his death row conviction.
Burton, who is due to die by nitrogen gas on 12 March – a method the state began using in 2024 – maintains he only learned of the fatal shooting of Doug Battle, a 34-year-old Army veteran and father of four, after the fact. "I didn’t know anything about nobody getting hurt until we were on the way back. No, nobody supposed to get hurt," Burton stated in a telephone interview last month from Holman Correctional Facility.
