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 then-President Joe Biden. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, 53, formerly of ...
On December 30, two men filed handwritten, emergency petitions from the death row unit in USP Terre Haute, a federal prison ...
The decision of two death row inmates to turn down clemency sounds unthinkable, but they are not the first to do it ...
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 ...