Had the execution gone forward, Burton would have faced a harsher punishment than the man who killed the victim during a botched robbery that Burton participated in. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old man who, by the government’s own admission, never killed anyone. Charles “Sonny” Burton, an accomplice in a 1991 robbery that ended with a fatal shooting, was scheduled to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday. Ivey reduced his sentence to life