From prison on his scheduled execution day, Charles “Sonny" Burton said he feels he “dodged death" after receiving clemency. He called the decision “a gift from God."

Governor Kay Ivey announced Tuesday that she has commuted the death sentence of Charles L. 'Sonny' Burton to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In a stunning move, Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, who was scheduled to be executed Thursday despite never having killed anyone. Burton was one of six men involved in the 1991 robbery of an AutoZone store in Talladega.

An Alabama man who was outside the building when a man was killed in an armed robbery is looking at life as "a gift from God" after being granted clemency by the state’s governor just days before he was set to be executed. Charles "Sonny" Burton, 75, was ...