Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences ...
A federal judge has denied a motion by a former Southwest Missouri man who seeks to overturn the commutation of his death sentence by former President Joe Biden.
On December 30, two men filed handwritten, emergency petitions from the death row unit in USP Terre Haute, a federal prison ...
The inmates, Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis, filed petitions in federal court on December 30, a week after Biden announced he would remove 37 out of 40 federal inmates from death row. The order did ...
Both men argue that the change would hinder their efforts to prove their innocence. They believe that staying on death row ...
The DOJ said that while not only are commutations legal, the president additionally has the authority to decide commutations.
The couple had been discussing the possibility since Biden’s election, she said.Shannon Agofsky was sentenced to death for the 2001 killing of Luther Plant, another inmate at the U.S ...