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 ...

UPDATE: 3/11/26 at 12:28 p.m.: The governor of Alabama granted clemency to Charles “Sonny” Burton just two days before he was scheduled to be executed. Governor Kay Ivey said she could not “proceed in ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday.

Gov. Kay Ivey commutes death sentence of man who did not pull the trigger days before his execution date ...

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 ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, sparing the 75-year-old inmate from a scheduled execution on March 12.

Gov. Kay Ivey commuted Charles “Sonny” Burton’s death sentence days before execution for a 1991 robbery where another man fired the fatal shot. Learn more.

Another man involved in the crime, Derrick DeBruce, was the person who actually pulled the trigger. Both men were originally convicted of capital murder. However, DeBruce later had his death sentence ...

With a December 3, 2026 execution date on the books, Blount County Circuit Court Judge David R. Duggan has ordered state-appointed experts to evaluate death-row inmate Gary Wayne Sutton, setting up a ...

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.