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.

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

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

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 governor's intervention. Charles "Sonny" Burton, 75, was sentenced to death for the ...

An Alabama inmate scheduled for execution in a few days has been officially taken off death row. Gov. Kay Ivey announced Tuesday she commuted the death sentence of Charles L. Burton to life in prison ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey reduced Charles "Sonny" Burton's sentence to life in prison without possibility of parole, marking just ...

Gov. Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Alabama death row inmate Charles “Sonny” Burton to life in prison without the ...

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.