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.

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

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

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.

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