Summary of Offense:

Convicted in the same crime, the August 1991 robbery of an auto parts store and murder of Doug Battle, as Derrick Anthony DeBruce (also sentenced to death). DeBruce pulled the trigger, but the robbery was Burton's idea.

Burton was sentenced to death in May 1992.

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