Cedric Ricks was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of 30-year-old Roxann Sanchez and her 8-year-old ...

North Texas man Cedric Ricks was found guilty of stabbing his girlfriend, Roxann Sanchez and her juvenile son, Anthony Figueroa, to death back in 2013. Thirteen years later, Cedric Ricks is scheduled ...

According to the Florida Department of Corrections as of March 16th, 2026, there are currently 249 inmates on death row in the state. Advocates with Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty ...

Attorneys for Alabama Death Row inmate Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case, ...

An Alabama inmate scheduled for execution in a few days has been officially taken off death row. Gov. Kay Ivey announced Tuesday she commuted the death sentence of Charles L. Burton to life in prison ...

James Broadnax, who was 19 when he shot and killed two Christian music producers in 2008, has filed last minute appeals ahead of his scheduled April 30 execution.

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice ...

Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Sonny Burton, who was set to be executed this week for a murder in which he didn't pull the trigger.

Charles “Sonny” Burton had been scheduled to die March 12 by nitrogen hypoxia for his role in a 1991 Talladega armed robbery, before Gov. Kay Ivey intervened March 10.