Shannon Agofsky, 53, an inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., filed an emergency motion on Dec. 30 in Indiana’s Southern District seeking an injunction to block his death sentence ...

On December 30, two men filed handwritten, emergency petitions from the death row unit in USP Terre Haute, a federal prison ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences ...

Two prisoners who are among the 37 inmates whose death sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden - a move that spares them from the death chamber - have refused to sign paperwork accepting his cl ...

The decision of two death row inmates to turn down clemency sounds unthinkable, but they are not the first to do it ...

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis have filed emergency petitions seeking to block the commutations of their death sentences.

A federal judge has denied a motion by a former Southwest Missouri man who seeks to overturn the commutation of his death sentence by then-President Joe Biden. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, 53, formerly of ...

Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden have ...

The DOJ said that while not only are commutations legal, the president additionally has the authority to decide commutations.

Two death row inmates are refusing to sign paperwork accepting President Joe Biden ’s commutation of their sentences to life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to NBC News.

Both men argue that the change would hinder their efforts to prove their innocence. They believe that staying on death row ...

The couple had been discussing the possibility since Biden’s election, she said.Shannon Agofsky was sentenced to death for the 2001 killing of Luther Plant, another inmate at the U.S ...