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

It is only the second commutation for Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican. The inmate, Charles Burton, was scheduled to die even though the gunman’s sentence had been commuted years ago. By Eduardo Medina ...

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 ...

A man who was set to be executed in Alabama over a killing that he did not carry out has been spared death after the governor's intervention. Charles "Sonny" Burton, 75, was sente ...

Learn more about Gov. Kay Ivey's decision to commute the sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, sparing him from execution.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of an inmate two days before his execution, saying it would be "unjust" to take his life when he wasn't the triggerman in a robbery gone bad. The ...

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Adrienne Reid, who reported her 2-year-old daughter missing in February, is now believed to have killed the child and thrown her in a dumpster.

A man who fatally shot a 10-year-old boy during a 2013 robbery at a nail salon in Northwest Miami-Dade received a second<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

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Rapper Travis Scott has joined a legal effort tied to a case now before the United States Supreme Court, weighing in on a growing debate over how rap lyrics are used during criminal trials. Through ...

The governor of Alabama made a last-minute decision to spare a 75-year-old inmate from execution because he wasn't the one who pulled the trigger on the gun that killed a father more than three ...