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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton, a 75-year-old inmate who spent more than three decades on death row for a 1991 Talladega robbery that ended in a customer’s killing. Ivey, a Republican, said it would be unjust to execute Burton because he did not pull the trigger in the fatal shooting. Ivey’s decision spares Burton days before he was scheduled to be executed by nitrogen gas. In a written statement, the governor said the facts of the case did not warrant the ultimate punishment…

Carrick’s perfect start lifts Manchester United into Champions League race as Arsenal surge nine points clear Manchester United’s season is back on the rails. Four straight Premier League wins under Michael Carrick, capped by a composed 2-0 defeat of 10-man Tottenham on Saturday, have turned a campaign that looked rudderless weeks ago into one with a credible route back to the Champions League. United’s victory maintained Carrick’s 100% start as head coach and pushed the 20-time English champion up to 44 points — already…

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s abrupt decision to cancel port management and security cooperation agreements with the United Arab Emirates caps years of friction and crystallizes a new geopolitical split in the Horn of Africa. Triggered by Israel’s recognition of North Western State of Somalia as an independent state — the first by any country — the rupture threatens to reorder alliances, stress Somalia’s fragile federal compact, and unsettle maritime security along one of the world’s most strategic coastlines. The move,…

Brussels condemned a new round of U.S. visa bans on European figures involved in combating online hate and disinformation, calling the move unjustified and warning the European Union could respond swiftly to defend its regulatory autonomy. France and Germany joined the EU in denouncing the restrictions, which target five Europeans, including former EU commissioner Thierry Breton, over alleged efforts to curb free speech and impose burdensome regulation on U.S. tech companies. The decision, announced by the administration of…

The U.S. Supreme Court has vacated a lower court’s ruling that had shielded Joseph Clifton Smith, a convicted murderer from Alabama, from execution due to an assertion of intellectual disability. The justices determined that the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals needs to provide further clarification on its previous decision, which deemed Smith's death penalty unjustifiable following a pivotal 2002 Supreme Court ruling. This earlier decision established that executing individuals who are intellectually…

The Japanese court has made a groundbreaking decision, acquitting the world’s longest-serving death row inmate after more than fifty years of conviction. Iwao Hakamada, who was sentenced for murder back in 1968, has now been declared not guilty. In a significant ruling, the Shizuoka District Court affirmed Hakamada’s innocence, acknowledging a retrial that his advocates and he initiated a decade ago. “The court finds the defendant innocent,” proclaimed Judge Koshi Kunii with profound gravity. Unfortunately, due to health…

Mauritania's football team will play its second CAN final in a row after validating its qualifier on the lawn of the Central African Republic, 1-0. The Mourabitounes goal was scored by Aboubakar Kamara. They needed a draw to qualify. The Mauritanians did better by winning without trembling on the lawn of Fauves de…