While the man who killed Doug Battle got a life sentence, one of his accomplices is about to be executed even though he wasn't in the building.

The Republican governor commuted the death sentence of 75-year-old Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton. Burton had been set for execution on Thursday, March 12.

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, who was not in the building when the victim ...

Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Sonny Burton, who was set to be executed this week for a murder in which he didn't pull the trigger.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked the state from executing an inmate convicted of killing a driver who gave him a ride, upholding a lower court ruling that he can’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama is set to execute an inmate this week who wasn't even in the building when the murder he was convicted of took place.

Charles "Sonny" Burton is seen in an undated photo provided by his attorneys A man who was set to be executed in Alabama over a killing that he did not carry out has been spared death after the ...