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Home Front: Politix
Two Death Row Inmates Don't Want their Sentence commuted
2025-01-08
About those Biden pardons…
[Yahoo] Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden — a move that spares them from the death chamber — have taken an unusual stance: They're refusing to sign paperwork accepting his clemency action.

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis, both inmates at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, filed emergency motions in federal court in the state's southern district on Dec. 30 seeking an injunction to block having their death sentences commuted to life in prison without parole.

The men believe that having their sentences commuted would put them at a legal disadvantage as they seek to appeal their cases based on claims of innocence.

A 1927 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, maintains that a president has the power to grant reprieves and pardons, and "the convict's consent is not required."

Posted by:Lord Garth

#1  If they’re innocent, more power to them.
Posted by: Super Hose   2025-01-08 12:26  

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