Toby Jones plays Philip Burton, who adopted the celebrated thespian and mentored him, in this film directed by Marc Evans. By Stephen Farber Seven-time Oscar nominee Richard Burton continues to have ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of an inmate two days before his execution, saying it would be "unjust" to take his life when he wasn't the triggerman in a robbery gone bad. The ...

Days before it was scheduled to occur, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced she will be commuting Charles Lee "Sonny" Burton's death sentence to life in prison with no chance of parole. Since Ivey set the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old man who, by the government’s own admission, ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old inmate who was set to be executed this week, even though he was not in the building when the victim was killed. Ivey ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - For just the second time, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted a prisoner’s death sentence. On Tuesday, she removed Charles “Sonny” Burton from death row. He had been scheduled ...

Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton to life in prison with no chance of parole. Burton, 75, was set to be executed on Thursday by nitrogen hypoxia for the 1991 ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a man who spent three decades on death row for a killing he did not commit, two days before he was scheduled to die. Ivey revised ...

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. Gov. Kay Ivey, in announcing ...

Charles 'Sonny' Burton, 75, planned the 1991 robbery but had already fled the scene when his accomplice fatally shot a man Chris Spargo is a senior reporter at PEOPLE who joined the crime team in 2025 ...

Rohan Naahar is a Weekend News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once. He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He ...

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 ...