An Idaho representative seeks to shield execution team members, and grant greater power to the state prison director over capital punishment.

James Broadnax, who was 19 when he shot and killed two Dallas County Christian music producers in 2008, has filed last-minute ...

Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of 75-year-old Charles “Sonny” Burton to life without the possibility of parole March 10.

Charles "Sonny" Burton will not be executed on Thursday after Gov. Kay Ivey announced that she has commuted his death ...

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.

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

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 announced Tuesday the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton would be commuted to life in prison ...

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, in announcing ...

Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, was set to be executed Thursday after being sentenced under a legal doctrine known as felony murder.