NewsEnglish • 2 days ago

Two death row inmates reject Joe Biden’s commutations

www.theguardian.com

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Two death row inmates reject Joe Biden’s commutations

www.theguardian.com

NewsEnglish • 2 days ago

The men are seeking to block the commutations, saying they would disadvantage their ongoing legal appeals

Summary

Two federal death row inmates, Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis, are challenging President Joe Biden’s commutation of their death sentences to life without parole.

They argue the commutations harm their legal appeals, stripping them of heightened judicial scrutiny and legal counsel access.

Agofsky is contesting convictions for a 1989 murder and a 2001 prison killing, while Davis, a former police officer, was convicted for orchestrating the 1994 murder of a civil rights complainant.

Biden’s clemency, excluding three high-profile cases, commuted 37 federal death row sentences, a historic number.

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21•2 days ago

Davis, a former police officer, was convicted for orchestrating the 1994 murder of a civil rights complainant

If Biden was trying to protect them from getting executed by Trump, I don’t think that one had anything to worry about.
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  But, it might fuck up Davis’s appeals.

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