Alabama Governor Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, a 75-year-old man who was on death row for ...

Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton had spent more than 30 years on Alabama's Death Row for the 1991 murder in which he wasn't the triggerman.

Had the execution gone forward, Burton would have faced a harsher punishment than the man who killed the victim during a ...

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.

A convicted felon, whose federal prison sentence was commuted during the final days of Joe Biden’s presidency, was released from custody last month, only to be rearrested for the same crime less than ...

Betty Dickey recalls the angry young woman at the beginning of a 50-year prison sentence, causing trouble for herself and corrections officers. That person doesn't exist any more, said Dickey, a ...

House Democrats say documents from a whistleblower show Ghislaine Maxwell is in the process of seeking a commutation. The White House says the president hasn’t thought about pardoning the ...

Jonathan Braun, a Lawrence man who pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and money laundering in 2011, was sentenced again on Monday. Braun was released from federal prison after Donald Trump commuted ...

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Ghislaine Maxwell, the co-conspirator of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from President Donald Trump, a ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the co-conspirator of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from President Donald Trump, a ...

Documents provided by a whistleblower show Ghislaine Maxwell has asked President Trump to commute her sentence as prison employees suggest she has received “concierge-style treatment” at a new ...