Cecilia Lei
speaker
2,410 appearances
26 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 25 Aug
Cecilia Lei’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So far, the Republican Majority Leader, John Thune, has been clear.
The numbers aren't there.
Some of those other discussions include Iran.
McCarthy found some level of anxiety among Republicans about the already climbing gas prices.
Oil prices came down from Monday's highs, but the Strait of Hormuz is still largely shut down, and neighboring nations have slashed their production.
75-year-old Charles Lee Burton was scheduled to be executed tomorrow after sitting on Alabama's death row for three decades.
So why did Kay Ivey, a governor who has presided over 25 executions, have a last-minute change of heart yesterday?
Savannah Trines Fernandez is an investigative reporter for AL.com and has been covering Burton's case.
She told us that in 1991, Burton, also known as Sonny, and five other men robbed an auto zone in Talladega, and during the incident, a man named Bruce Battle was shot and killed.
Burton was not the person who pulled the trigger, but he was sentenced to death by a jury because of what's known as a felony murder rule.
In fact, the person who actually committed the murder had his sentence reduced to life in prison after winning a federal appeal.
That means Burton was the only man on death row for Battle's killing, despite not being the shooter.
That drew national attention and garnered support from unlikely places.
Jurors who convicted Burton called for his life to be spared, and the victim's daughter, Tori Battle, appealed to the governor directly.
In late February, Trines Fernandez spoke to Burton from prison about what the daughter's letter meant to him.
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.
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