Sonny Burton did not kill anyone, but Alabama put him on death row and his execution is scheduled to be carried out this week — unless Ivey grants clemency or courts intervene.
Save Sonny! I live in Montgomery, Alabama and there are "Save Sonny" yard signs popping up everywhere. They've also been holding Mercy Monday vigils in front of the governors mansion. There's a documentary called "The Alabama Solution" that shows the horrors of our criminal justice system. The film was made by the prisoners using their cellphone cameras, so it gives you an unfiltered version of the reality under which they live and die. Thank you to everyone who is fighting for clemency for Sonny Burton. We're not asking for him to be freed, we just don't want the State of Alabama to kill him (especially using nitrogen suffocation). We must end the death penalty!
Let me get this straight. The actual shooter was granted life without parole the man who was outside and not responsible for the shooting faces execution. Yea this makes a hell of a lot sense! Hope his life is spared.
Nice word-play there, Chris, but you're beclowning yourself.
You surely know that Sonny most certainly did *murder* the victim, and you also most certainly know that the felony murder rule does not impose murder liability on "everyone involved" in the underlying felony, but only on (1) *major participants* in that crime who also (2) *act with reckless indifference to human life.*
For the sake of your reputation among reasonably well-informed people, stop behaving like an inveterate hack.
Save Sonny! I live in Montgomery, Alabama and there are "Save Sonny" yard signs popping up everywhere. They've also been holding Mercy Monday vigils in front of the governors mansion. There's a documentary called "The Alabama Solution" that shows the horrors of our criminal justice system. The film was made by the prisoners using their cellphone cameras, so it gives you an unfiltered version of the reality under which they live and die. Thank you to everyone who is fighting for clemency for Sonny Burton. We're not asking for him to be freed, we just don't want the State of Alabama to kill him (especially using nitrogen suffocation). We must end the death penalty!
Let me get this straight. The actual shooter was granted life without parole the man who was outside and not responsible for the shooting faces execution. Yea this makes a hell of a lot sense! Hope his life is spared.
Thank you. I just wrote to Governor Ivey. This is horrifying.
Chris,
Sonny's execution will beis neither just or fair. We are in this together. Peace.
Christopher and family in SC.
Nice word-play there, Chris, but you're beclowning yourself.
You surely know that Sonny most certainly did *murder* the victim, and you also most certainly know that the felony murder rule does not impose murder liability on "everyone involved" in the underlying felony, but only on (1) *major participants* in that crime who also (2) *act with reckless indifference to human life.*
For the sake of your reputation among reasonably well-informed people, stop behaving like an inveterate hack.
You didn’t do what you think you did here, buddy.
So felony murder is first degree murder even without intent to do the act that led to the killing? Or even knowledge that that act would happen?
Well said Chris! Thank you for speaking out on such important issues!