In an attempt to challenge their cases and establish their innocence, two federal death row convicts are requesting an exemption from departing President Joe Biden’s decree commuting their sentences to life in prison without the possibility of release.
A week after Biden declared he would transfer 37 of 40 federal inmates from death row, the inmates, Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis, filed petitions in federal court on December 30. Three prisoners whose offenses included well-publicized mass shootings or acts of terrorism were excluded from the decree.
According to their separate handwritten petitions, Agofsky and Davis refused to sign forms acknowledging the commutations, although other prisoners and their lawyers saw them as a blessing.
