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

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 governor's intervention. Charles "Sonny" Burton, 75, was sente ...

Had the execution gone forward, Burton would have faced a harsher punishment than the man who killed the victim during a botched robbery that Burton participated in.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old man who was set to be executed this week even though he was not in the building when the victim was killed during a 1991 robbery ...

An Alabama man convicted of murder despite having fled the scene of the crime before the trigger was pulled will no longer be put to death. Gov. Kay Ivey announced on Tuesday that she would spare the ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor has raised concerns about the lack of transparency in Florida's execution protocols, warning that the state's secrecy laws may place people on death row at risk of Eighth ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, who was not in the building when the victim was killed.

Death row inmate’s execution halted as governor commutes sentence - He was sentenced to death even though he was not in the building when the victim was killed ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the execution of a man on death row. On Tuesday, Ivey announced that Charles L. Burton, 75, would instead serve life in prison without the ...

While the man who killed Doug Battle got a life sentence, one of his accomplices is about to be executed even though he ...

Supporters of Charles Lee Burton argued he was merely an accomplice to a 1991 murder, while he has grown too old and feeble to be executed.