A social media post by Gov. Kay Ivey reflecting on her childhood and accomplishments sparked hundreds of requests for the governor to use her authority to stop the execution of a man who was convicted ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Charles “Sonny” Burton is scheduled to be executed Thursday for his part in an armed robbery that turned deadly. However, he did not pull the trigger. Protestors gathered ...

Texas was scheduled to hold a hearing today to determine whether Andre Thomas is competent to be executed. But that hearing had to be called off, because the expert retained by the state to examine ...

Melvin Trotter is scheduled for execution for the 1986 murder of a 70-year-old shop owner in Palmetto. Trotter's attorneys have filed multiple appeals, including one currently before the U.S. Supreme ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Charles “Sonny” Burton said no one was supposed to get hurt during the 1991 AutoZone robbery that landed him on death row, and he only learned later that another man in the ...

Billy Leon Kearse, convicted in October 1991 in the Jan. 18, 1991, murder of Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish, and sentenced to death in March 1997, was executed the evening of March 3 after ...

Virgie Langford was ready for retirement. For five decades, the 70-year-old ran a mom-and-pop grocery store in Palmetto along Florida's Gulf Coast. The neighborhood had gotten dangerous, Langford got ...

BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — A Circuit Court judge has ordered that Gary Wayne Sutton, the man who was convicted of murdering a brother and sister in Blount and Sevier counties, be evaluated by state ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People gather outside the Alabama Governor's Mansion in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 16, 2026, to urge Gov. Kay Ivey to grant ...

Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton did not pull the trigger that killed Doug Battle in 1991. He didn’t tell anyone to fire the shot, nor was he in the building when it happened, according to Burton’s petition ...

Killer Mike, Travis Scott, T.I. and other artists said James Broadnax was sent to death row in Texas based partly on his artistic expression. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak is the chief legal ...

Faith leaders, community members and the family of Sonny Burton are marching from the governor's mansion to the State Capitol in Montgomery Feb. 9 to deliver more than 60,000 petition signatures ...