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 ...

Alabama is set to execute Charles “Sonny” Burton despite the fact that he never killed anyone. Ahead of his execution on ...

A Texas death row inmate convicted of a brutal double murder more than a decade ago delivered emotional final words before his execution — apologizing directly to the surviving victim who witnessed ...

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

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.

Another man involved in the crime, Derrick DeBruce, was the person who actually pulled the trigger. Both men were originally ...

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

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.

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 ...