Articles tagged with #clemency

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...

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections had announced plans to execute the inmate, who was convicted of murdering a police officer, by lethal injection on Wednesday. However, just hours before the scheduled execution, Governor Kevin Stitt issued a statement announcing that he had commuted the death s...