Gov. Kay Ivey Thursday set the execution for Charles Lee Burton for March 12. He was convicted in 1992 of the capital murder of Doug Battle in 1991. If the execution goes forward, Osgood will be the first person put to death by the state of Alabama this year. (Alabama Department of Corrections)
Gov. Kay Ivey Thursday scheduled a March 12 execution of Charles Lee Burton for his role in the death of Doug Battle.
The execution of Burton, 75, would be the first of the year. Alabama carried out five executions in 2025, tied for the second-highest next to Florida, which carried out 19 executions. The state plans to carry out the execution by nitrogen gas.
According to court documents, Burton and five other people entered an Auto Zone in Talladega in August 1991 with the intention of robbing the store. Battle was shot and killed during the robbery attempt.
Burton did not shoot Battle. Derrick DeBruce, the man convicted of shooting Battle, had his sentence reduced to life without parole in 2002.
Burton would be the eighth person that Alabama has put to death using nitrogen gas after Kenneth Eugene Smith was the first person that the state in January 2024 executed using that method. Since then, Alabama has also executed Alan Eugene Miller, Carey Dale Grayson, Demetrius Terrence Frazier, Gregory Hunt, Geoffrey Todd West and Anthony Boyd by nitrogen gas.
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