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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Gustaf Kilander

Biden commuted 37 inmates’ death sentences. Why two of them said no thanks

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a ceremony to award the Presidential Citizens Medal in the East Room of the White House on January 2 - (Getty Images)

Two death row inmates are refusing to sign paperwork accepting President Joe Biden’s commutation of their sentences to life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to NBC News.

Last month, 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.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, have filed emergency motions requesting injunctions to prevent their death sentences from being commuted, saying they are still trying to prove their innocence and believe the commutations could put their appeals at risk.

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