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

On Friday, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond's office said it has asked that the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board ...

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

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.

In a rare exercise of executive leniency, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on March 10 commuted the death sentence of 75-year-old Charles “Sonny” Burton, just days before he was scheduled to face the ...

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

Polis pointed to the case of a former Democratic state legislator who was sentenced to probation for the same charge that ...

We urge you not to empower those who seek to undermine our elections and Republic by providing them with a figurehead to rally around,” dozens of state lawmakers wrote in a letter to ...

Every Democrat in the Colorado state Legislature signed on to a Wednesday letter urging Gov. Jared Polis (D) to not give Tina ...