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

A 75-year-old inmate who was set to be executed this week has been spared death after his governor intervened. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey reduced Charles “Sonny” Burton’s sentenc ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 is scheduled to be executed March 12 for his role in a 1991 robbery in which a man was fatally shot.