Alabama ‘Nearly Executed’ a Man Who Has Never Killed Anyone ...

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.

Charles "Sonny" Burton was convicted as an accomplice in the shooting death of Doug Battle, a customer who was killed during a robbery of an auto parts store.

While the man who killed Doug Battle got a life sentence, one of his accomplices is about to be executed even though he wasn't in the building.

Alabama is set to execute Charles “Sonny” Burton despite the fact that he never killed anyone. Ahead of his execution on ...

Kay Ivey this week was one execution away from setting a record among Alabama governors in the modern era of the death penalty. But instead she chose to spare a man’s life, setting an entirely ...

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

Alabama plans to carry out its first execution of the year March 12 amid weeks of protests from death penalty opponents, putting Charles Lee "Sonny" Burton to death by nitrogen gas hypoxia for a ...

An Alabama inmate scheduled for execution in a few days has been officially taken off death row. Gov. Kay Ivey announced Tuesday she commuted the death sentence of Charles L. Burton to life in prison ...

Charles "Sonny" Burton, 75, is scheduled to be executed in Alabama next month, despite his claim that he was unaware anyone would be harmed during the 1991 AutoZone robbery that led to his death row ...

Charles “Sonny” Burton is scheduled to be executed March 12 for his role in a 1991 robbery in which a man was fatally shot.