From prison on his scheduled execution day, Charles “Sonny" Burton said he feels he “dodged death" after receiving clemency.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has paved the way for one of Alabama's longest-serving death row inmates to receive a new trial. On ...

EXCLUSIVE: Karen Conti, a litigation lawyer who represented the infamous killer in his final death row appeals was asked if ...

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

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.

A man charged with killing his wife and three relatives is the second Gwinnett County defendant in a week to learn he faces ...

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.

Phillip Whitnel — the man charged in the December 2025 killing of Stephanie Stacey — entered a not guilty plea at his ...

Attorneys in the death penalty case against Doug Lovell for the 1985 murder of Joyce Yost will be in court this week, but the ...

Anti-capital punishment advocates say the death penalty is costlier to taxpayers than life in prison because many defendants appeal their sentences, and the appeals process can force victims’ families ...