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

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.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old man who was set to be executed this week even though he was not in the building when the victim was killed during a 1991 robbery.

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 ...

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

All 66 Democratic state legislators are urging Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) to deny clemency to former Mesa County Clerk ...

Every single Democrat in the Colorado legislature signed a letter urging Gov. Jared Polis (D) not to grant clemency to Tina ...

Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) has indicated he may grant clemency to Tina Peters, a former election clerk in Mesa County, Colorado, ...

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

Gov. Jared Polis has signaled that he will wait until the Colorado Court of Appeals has weighed in on the case of ...

Charles "Sonny" Burton, 75, is scheduled to be executed in Alabama next month, despite his claim that he was unaware anyone ...