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 to be executed Thursday by nitrogen gas.

Alice Marie Johnson wrote that Ivey's decision “showed what courageous and common sense leadership looks like.”

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — 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 reduced Charles “Sonny” Burton ...

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 a week later — this time on state charges.

(NEW YORK) -- President Donald Trump said Friday evening he has signed a commutation releasing scandal-plagued former congressman George Santos from prison "immediately." Santos, 37, was less than three months into serving a seven-year sentence in federal ...