HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - A local defense attorney and others throughout the state weigh in on the big decision to spare a death row inmate’s life. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton, a man who had been on ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - A man on death row for Huntsville’s notorious ‘cell phone murders’ has lost another appeal. On Friday, Alabama’s Court of Criminal Appeals rejected Joey Wilson’s application for a rehearing. Wilson is on death row for ...

For years, county, state and federal courts have ruled that neither Broadnax’s transformation, nor his claims of an unfair trial, were grounds for reprieve.

A North Texas man who claimed he wasn’t the shooter in a fatal robbery that killed two people nearly 18 years ago and who says prosecutors misused rap lyrics he wrote to secure his death sentence has been executed.

James Broadnax, 37, was given a lethal injection in Texas nearly 18 years after being convicted of fatally shooting two Christian music producers.