Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Kay Ivey delivers the State of the State Address at the Alabama State Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Montgomery, Ala.

Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton had spent more than 30 years on Alabama's Death Row for the 1991 murder in which he wasn't the ...

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, a 75-year-old man who was on death row for ...

A social media post by Gov. Kay Ivey reflecting on her childhood and accomplishments sparked hundreds of requests for the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — The fallout continues after Gov. Kay Ivey apologized for her role in a skit involving blackface when she was a student at Auburn University in the 1960s. Some have called for ...

Thanks for doing the right thing, Guvnah. You may not admit it, but I think you made that little girl from Camden proud.

Alabama stopped a high-profile scheduled execution just days before it was set to happen. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the controversial death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton on Tuesday, sparing ...

For just the second time, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has used her powers to order the commutation of a prisoner’s death sentence.

While the man who killed Doug Battle got a life sentence, one of his accomplices is about to be executed even though he ...

Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the sentence just two days before the execution was set to take place.

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

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of inmate Charles Burton, who was convicted as an accomplice in a 1991 robbery-murder case, to life in prison without parole.