Articles tagged with #capital punishment

Charles 'Sonny' Burton, a 63-year-old inmate on death row in Alabama, is set to be released from prison after serving nearly three decades for the murder of a police officer. Burton's lawyers had long argued that he was not mentally fit to stand trial and had been denied adequate representation, lea...

In a recent episode of Dateline, a podcast revealed new evidence pointing to judicial misconduct in Robert Roberson's case, just days ahead of his scheduled execution in Texas. The stunning development has sparked a wave of attention to the show's in-depth investigations. Dateline, the true crime or...