Sonny Burton didn’t kill anybody, but Alabama is set to execute him
The state of Alabama knows that Charles “Sonny” Burton didn’t kill anyone. He wasn’t there when his accomplice in a robbery pulled the trigger. But unless Governor Kay Ivey or the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes, Burton will be executed on March 12th via nitrogen gas. NBC News’ Dan Slepian spoke to him from death row, and a juror who thinks she made a grave mistake. He reports on the legal doctrine called “Felony Murder” that locks up thousands.
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Hi Scottie. I’ve never understood the death penalty in how it is administered currently. I will say I understand that there should be a consequence to crime, that an accountability has to be made, but I will say that there has to be a rationality to it as well.
In my opinion, if we are to do the death penalty, it should be immediate. I cannot imagine the stress and torture of living under a “Sword of Damocles”. Moments of extremity or in this case a very poor decision with a tragic outcome are over in moments, most times, but to punish that with decades of the knowledge that there will come a time when one’s life is taken away and there isn’t a damn thing he can do about it is absolute torture. It can only drive a person to insanity if he were to think on it at all.
There are some who will say that it deters crime. It does not. There will be others who say that it brings justice for the family, but only at the cost of torturing another family – and I would question if it really does bring anything like closure or peace to the family member. It would seem to be a very stressful and tearing existence for the victims family as well.
In the end, it is cruel in every aspect, expensive in the extreme and no-where near the goal of “swift justice”. I don’t have answers, but I do note that many states do not have the death penalty and somehow the world has not ended there.
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