Anti-capital punishment advocates say the death penalty is costlier to taxpayers than life in prison because many defendants appeal their sentences, and the appeals process can force victims’ families ...

Gov. Kay Ivey commutes death sentence of man who did not pull the trigger days before his execution date ...

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

Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the 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 murder ...

Former NFL and Ohio State linebacker Darron Lee allegedly used ChatGPT for advice about an unresponsive person.

MINNEAPOLISMINNEAPOLIS — Federal prosecutors are dropping their appeal of a judge’s decision to overturn the death sentence for a Minnesota man convicted in the 2003 kidnapping and killing of Dru ...

Missouri is a pro-life state and that includes even the least deserving of life, said Missouri lawmakers Monday.

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 ...

A 33-year-old mother in Alabama, already accused of lying to police about her missing 2-year-old daughter, is now being charged with killing the toddler, whose body she allegedly stuffed into a bag ...

2011: Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law a bill banning the death penalty in Illinois.

Religious leaders are giving a bill to abolish Missouri's death penalty the support needed to push it forward.

On Thursday, Alabama is scheduled to execute wheelchair-bound, 75-year-old Charles "Sonny" Burton, for a murder committed in ...