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

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

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old inmate who was set to be executed this week even though he was not in the building when the victim was killed during a 1991 ...

Had the execution gone forward, Burton would have faced a harsher punishment than the man who killed the victim during a botched robbery that Burton participated in.

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 ...

Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden — a move that spares them from the death chamber — have taken an unusual stance ...

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.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey Tuesday commuted the death sentence for Charles “Sonny” Burton to life imprisonment amid a mounting ...

Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of 75-year-old Charles “Sonny” Burton to life without the possibility of parole March 10.

Gov. Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Alabama death row inmate Charles “Sonny” Burton to life in prison without the ...