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

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reverses death penalty more than a decade after 2012 killings ...

The Florida death row killer executed Tuesday night for the grisly rape and murder of a married mom reportedly devoured a ...

Adam Sheafe previously said he targeted the pastor because he believed him to be preaching "the opposite of what God said." ...

Georgia's long-running fight over how and when it can carry out death sentences landed back before the state Supreme Court on Wednesday, with lawyers arguing over whether a pandemic-era deal should ...

A Texas man on death row for murdering two people is asking the state to halt his April 13 execution after someone else has allegedly come forward to claim responsibility — his own cousin. James ...

Attorneys for James Broadnax are seeking to halt his April 13 execution for murdering two men at a Garland Christian music recording studio. His co-defendant, Demarius Cummings, is now claiming he was ...

Gov. Kay Ivey commutes death sentence of man who did not pull the trigger days before his execution date ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton, a man who had been on death row for 35 years ...

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

Southwest Ohio's longest-serving resident on the state's Death Row has died, just over 40 years after he was arrested for the deaths of five family members in Dayton. Samuel Moreland, 72, died ...