Two death row inmates have rejected the clemency granted to them by Joe Biden, opting to take their chance in the courts.

In December 2024, US President Joe Biden commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment for 37 prisoners. Two of them refused to commute the sentence. This was reported by TASS with reference to the NBC News channel.

Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction and the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Sean Collier during the getaway attempt. Prosecutors said the brothers carried out the attack to punish the U.S. for wars in Muslim countries.

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis refused to sign paperwork that would reduce their sentences to life without parole.

In an unusual move, two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden in December have refused to sign paperwork accepting his clemency acti

Donald Trump said the Justice Department will pursue the death penalty against prisoners after Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates.

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

Shannon Wayne Agofsky and Len Davis both filed emergency petitions prevent their death sentences from being commuted to life in prison without parole.

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.

In a legal gambit, two death row inmates are trying to avoid the commutation of their sentences by President Joe Biden. Last month, Biden sprinkled commutations on a number of federal inmates who had been sentenced to death.