Cecilia Lei

On Tuesday, Governor Ivey explained that her 11th hour decision to grant Burton clemency was an effort to, quote, "...ensure the continued viability of the death penalty and that a government's most consequential action must be administered fairly and proportionately."

After the commutation, Burton will now spend the rest of his life in prison.

His case isn't unique.

There have been more than 10,000 felony murder rule cases across the U.S., and at least 22 people with these convictions have been executed.

And finally, a few other stories we're following.

Pollsters and party strategists watch more than a dozen Republicans slug it out in Georgia's special election yesterday as they eye the House seat that was once held by Marjorie Taylor Greene.

In the end, it was Trump's preferred candidate, Clay Fuller, who advanced to a runoff, beating 16 other Republicans to face Democrat Sean Harris later this year.

NBC's Steve Kornacki told the network that Harris had overperformed in many districts.

But the story of the night was the distance Fuller put between his GOP challengers.

Fuller is now the favorite to take the seat in the vote this April.

A whistleblower has claimed a former member of Elon Musk's federal Doge department took sensitive information from two Social Security databases and had the intention to share them with a new employer.

The Washington Post reported the story first and says that if true, it would represent an unprecedented breach of security at the Social Security Administration, which serves more than 70 million Americans.

The former employee said he had databases that included records for 500 million living and dead Americans.

The information includes social security numbers, dates of birth, citizenship status, and names of parents.

Sources told The Post the breach may have happened in January and that the person in question had security access to the data.

Both Congress and the Government Accountability Office have been notified, and a probe is underway.

The person in question allegedly told a colleague at the Social Security Administration that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if he were convicted of a crime for his actions.

The Post says it's not clear if he was able to upload the data successfully to the outside company's network.

And finally, a modern-day treasure hunter who discovered one of the biggest shipwreck bounties in American history and went to prison for hiding its whereabouts has been released, but he's still refusing to give up his secrets.

In 1988, Tommy Thompson found the SS Central America, known as the Ship of Gold, off the coast of South Carolina.