The Republican governor commuted the death sentence of 75-year-old Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton. Burton had been set for execution on Thursday, March 12.

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

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

The director of a movie exposing the conditions within the Alabama prison system has invited Kay Ivey to the Academy Awards.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey reduced Charles "Sonny" Burton's sentence to life in prison without possibility of parole, marking just ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the execution of a man on death row. On Tuesday, Ivey announced that Charles L. Burton, 75, would instead serve life in prison without the ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Charles L. "Sonny" Burton on Tuesday. The commutation comes two days before the scheduled execution.

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

Community members, activists and local leaders gathered at Birmingham’s historic Carver Theatre on Tuesday night, March 10, ...

You can ‘keep your Oscars,’ Hollywood. Just don’t be shining your light inside Alabama’s darkest horror story. Happy Friday ...

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

Charles “Sonny” Burton had been scheduled to die March 12 by nitrogen hypoxia for his role in a 1991 Talladega armed robbery, before Gov. Kay Ivey intervened March 10.