From prison on his scheduled execution day, Charles “Sonny" Burton said he feels he “dodged death" after receiving clemency.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey spared the life of a 75-year-old death row inmate who was set to be executed this week for a killing he did not commit ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice ...

Southwest Ohio's longest-serving resident on the state's Death Row has died, just over 40 years after he was arrested for the ...

Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Sonny Burton, who was set to be executed this week for a murder in which he didn't pull the trigger.

An Alabama inmate scheduled for execution in a few days has been officially taken off death row. Gov. Kay Ivey announced Tuesday she commuted the death sentence of Charles L. Burton to life in prison ...

Charles “Sonny” Burton had been scheduled to die March 12 by nitrogen hypoxia for his role in a 1991 Talladega armed robbery, before Gov. Kay Ivey intervened March 10.

James Broadnax, who was 19 when he shot and killed two Christian music producers in 2008, has filed last minute appeals ahead of his scheduled April 30 execution.

Charles "Sonny" Burton is seen in an undated photo provided by his attorneys A man who was set to be executed in Alabama over a killing that he did not carry out has been spared death after the ...

It is only the second commutation for Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican. The inmate, Charles Burton, was scheduled to die even ...