Alabama has set a June execution by nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing two people during a 1998 robbery of a pawn shop. Alabama Gov.

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 inmate scheduled for execution Wednesday night ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced Wednesday she has set the time for the execution of death row inmate Jeffery Lee. Lee, 49, is ...

Gov. Kay Ivey Wednesday said she had scheduled a June 11 nitrogen gas execution for Jeffrey Lee, 50, convicted of the murders ...

Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney and use a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen needed to stay alive ...

Kay Ivey this week was one execution away from setting a record among Alabama governors in the modern era of the death penalty. But instead she chose to spare a man’s life, setting an entirely ...

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 ...

This 2025 photo provided by Matt Schulz shows Charles "Sonny" Burton, who is facing execution in Alabama for a 1991 murder during a robbery, in which he was not the triggerman, at the Holman ...

Charles "Sonny" Burton could be executed in Alabama despite never having killed anyone, a rare occurrence in a death penalty case that has pushed some of the jurors who sentenced him to seek clemency ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of Charles L. "Sonny" Burton to life in prison without the possibility of parole, citing the disproportionate punishment ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Charles “Sonny” Burton didn’t kill anyone. The state of Alabama could execute him anyway. Burton, 75, is facing execution for his role as an accomplice in a 1991 robbery at an auto ...