2 Death Row Prisoners Refuse Biden’s Clemency

Two death row inmates reject Biden’s clemency, taking gamble on appeals
Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis argued that President Joe Biden’s commutations hinder their chance of appeal as they seek to prove their innocence.
Two federal death row inmates refuse Biden's commutation in continued fight to prove their innocence
Two men who were among the 37 federal inmates on death row whose sentences were commuted by President Biden are rejecting clemency.
Two federal death row inmates refuse to sign Biden’s clemency paperwork: ‘Does not want commutation’
At issue is the belief by the two inmates – both of whom maintain their innocence –  that Biden’s commutation puts them at a legal disadvantage as they appeal their cases.
Two death row inmates reject Biden's commutation of their life sentences
Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis were among 37 of the 40 federal prisoners whose death sentences were changed to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Biden commuted 37 inmates’ death sentences. Why two of them said no thanks
Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 federal inmates in a move that was applauded by anti-death penalty advocates. But two of those prisoners, Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis, who are imprisoned at the U.
Two Death Row Prisoners Refuse Biden’s Clemency
President Joe Biden had the death sentences of 37 federal inmates commuted last month—but two of those prisoners are refusing to sign the paperwork that would save them from the death chamber. Biden’s clemency action sees the inmates’ death sentences being commuted to life in prison without parole.
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President Biden commuted 1,500 jail sentences and pardoned 39 others on Thursday in the largest single-day act of clemency in ...
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