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Charles Sonny Burton, a 75-year-old inmate on death row in Alabama, is scheduled for execution by nitrogen gas on March 12th for his role in a 1991 robbery that resulted in a fatal shooting. Despite claims that he didnt intend for anyone to be hurt and that he wasnt present during the shooting, Burton was convicted under felony murder laws and sentenced to death. His legal team argues that the execution is unfair, as the actual shooter received life in prison and later died there. Supporters, including trial jurors and the victims daughter, have pleaded for clemency, but the governors office and the Attorney General have opposed it. Burton expresses remorse and wishes to apologize to the victims family, while his daughter protests the sentence.

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