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

Before Thursday, no execution had ever been carried out in the U.S. using the method, and experts have repeatedly warned that nitrogen toxicity may cause the condemned person to suffer unnecessarily ...

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

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 ...

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

Charles ‘Sonny’ Burton had left the site of the murder before it occurred ...

Alabama executed Anthony Todd Boyd by nitrogen gas for a 1993 kidnapping and murder. Boyd maintained his innocence in his final words, claiming the process was political revenge. The U.S. Supreme ...

Alabama plans to execute Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton with nitrogen gas in March for a murder committed during a robbery of an AutoZone in 1991, the state's governor has announced. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey ...