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

Trigger Warning: This article contains details of violence and death. Reader discretion is strongly advised. A Texas death ...

From prison on his scheduled execution day, Charles “Sonny" Burton said he feels he “dodged death" after receiving clemency. He called the decision “a gift from God." ...

Another man involved in the crime, Derrick DeBruce, was the person who actually pulled the trigger. Both men were originally ...

The death sentence of a 75-year-old man days before his execution date has been commuted after it was noted that he did not ...

A 75-year-old death row inmate has been spared from execution in a last-minute decision by the governor of Alabama. Charles 'Sonny' Burton was due to be killed by nitrogen gas on ...

After years of appeals, a federal judge threw out Derrick Jamison's conviction. Prosecutors dismissed the case in 2005.

Before execution, many death row inmates are offered a final meal. The requests range from ordinary to deeply unusual, and in some cases, the meal is declined entirely. This list looks at ten of the ...

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.

Billy Kearse, on Florida's death row for the 1991 murder of Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish, was executed by lethal ...