Alabama’s governor has commuted the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton, a 75-year-old African American man who has spent three decades on death row for a killing he did not commit. Burton was convicted for the 1991 fatal shooting of Doug Battle during a store robbery. Burton participated in the robbery but had already left when the person he was with shot and killed Battle. Republican Governor Kay Ivey’s decision came two days before Burton was scheduled to be executed using nitrogen gas. The daughter of the victim, Tori Battle, had joined calls to commute Burton’s death sentence, writing in an op-ed for the Montgomery Adviser, “My love for my father does not require another death, especially one that defies reason.” Burton uses a wheelchair due to his painful arthritis. He will now serve a life sentence without parole. Governor Ivey has presided over at least 25 executions in Alabama.