Attribution: Alabama Post-Conviction Relief Project

Add your name: help prevent Alabama’s next execution

Hey Jack,

Sonny Burton needs your help to stop his execution before it’s scheduled! Sonny never took anyone’s life. Police and authorities knew the identity of the shooter–but while the shooter got a life sentence, Sonny has been on Alabama’s death row for 33 years. 

His execution could be scheduled at any time. So we are working now to mobilize support from across the country to urge Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to grant him clemency. Add your name to support clemency for Sonny.

Sonny's conviction rests on only one testimony from a single witness: a teenage co-defendant testifying to save himself from the death penalty. The death penalty shouldn’t have been on the table for either of them. But Alabama’s felony murder rule allows capital punishment to be carried out for a person who participated in a felony that led to a death. 

Because of the felony murder rule, Sonny lives each day uncertain when the State will send him to the death chamber. Even Alabama state authorities have called his sentence “arguably unjust,” and yet they are upholding his death sentence.

Over the years, the courts have been unable to correct the errors in his case. Clemency is now his last hope to avoid execution.

Sign if you agree Governor Ivey should grant Sonny clemency now.

In solidarity,

U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty