The decision of two death row inmates to turn down clemency sounds unthinkable, but they are not the first to do it ...

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis have filed emergency petitions seeking to block the commutations of their death sentences.

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis argued that President Joe Biden’s commutations hinder their chance of appeal as they seek to prove their innocence.

The murderers sentenced to death over the past half-century by juries in Santa Clara County are far from sympathetic characters. Richard Farley killed seven people in a 1988 mass shooting in Sunnyvale ...

In December 2024, US President Joe Biden commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment for 37 prisoners. Two of them ...

Len Davis, the notoriously corrupt New Orleans police officer whose death sentence for the killing of a mother was commuted ...

The move comes after years of legal battles over the case, which remains in pretrial hearings 17 years after charges were ...

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks at the 2024 White House ... File) FILE - Anti-death penalty activists protest in front of the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., on Jan.

“Joe Biden just commuted the Death Sentence on ... The president-elect wrote that he would direct the department to pursue the death penalty “as soon as I am inaugurated,” but was vague ...

A prisoner who killed a Benton County man and a fellow inmate in 2004 and had his death sentence commuted by President Joe Biden refuses to sign his paperwork accepting the clemency action.

Davis and another inmate filed an emergency motion in federal court on Dec. 30 seeking an injunction to block having their death sentences commuted to life in prison without parole.

After 23 years, the fate of the last remaining Guantanamo detainees swept up worldwide after al-Qaida’s shattering Sept. 11, ...