Kay Ivey this week was one execution away from setting a record among Alabama governors in the modern era of the death penalty. But instead she chose to spare a man’s life, setting an entirely ...

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

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old inmate who was set to be executed this week even ...

The Republican governor commuted the death sentence of 75-year-old Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton. Burton had been set for ...

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

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.

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

It is only the second commutation for Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican. The inmate, Charles Burton, was scheduled to die even ...

Burton was set to be executed on Thursday for his role in the 1991 death of a man during a ...

Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, participated in a 1991 robbery that led to a death but had left the building when an accomplice ...