A 75-year-old man who has spent over 30 years on Alabama's death row for a killing he did not personally commit is scheduled ...

This fact is not in dispute: Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, has never killed anyone.

The U.S. Supreme Court has paved the way for one of Alabama's longest-serving death row inmates to receive a new trial. On ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has paved the way for one of Alabama's longest-serving death row inmates to receive a new trial. On ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court ruling that Alabama prosecutors violated Michael Sockwell's constitutional rights by intentionally rejecting Black jurors, paving the way ...

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is being urged to grant clemency to 75-year-old death row inmate Charles "Sonny" Burton, who did ...

Attorneys for Alabama Death Row inmate Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case, ...

Charles "Sonny" Burton, an Alabama man on death row, is scheduled for execution next month. Gov. Kay Ivey officially set the execution window for between midnight Thursday, March 12, and 6 a.m. the ...

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Three decades after being sentenced for a murder he didn't even witness, Sonny Burton is now only days away from his scheduled execution.