Days before it was scheduled to occur, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced she will be commuting Charles Lee "Sonny" Burton's death sentence to life in prison with no chance of parole. Since Ivey set the ...

Attorneys for Alabama Death Row inmate Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case, arguing he was deprived of choosing his trial defense and that the state ...

A Muslim man on Alabama’s death row is scheduled to be executed during the holiest month in the Islamic religion. Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton is set to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia on March 12, one ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - For just the second time, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted a prisoner’s death sentence. On Tuesday, she removed Charles “Sonny” Burton from death row. He had been scheduled ...