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President Biden announced Monday that he had commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 current federal death row inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole. “These commutations are ...
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 ...
Two of the 37 people on federal death row whose sentences were commuted last month are trying to block President Joe Biden's clemency action.. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, who was sentenced to death in ...
The inmates, Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis, filed petitions in federal court on December 30, a week after Biden announced he would remove 37 out of 40 federal inmates from death row. The order did ...
Two convicted murderers spared from execution by President Biden’s controversial clemency last month have asked a federal court to let them stay on death row.. Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis ...
On October 6, 2022, Biden pardoned all those convicted of what was previously the federal offense of simple possession of marijuana, totaling 500, via Proclamation 10467. [94] This excluded non-U.S. citizens and those who were considered illegal immigrants at the time of their arrest. [95] [96] On December 30, 2022, Biden issued 6 pardons. [97]
The Pope was among those who called on Biden to commute the sentences of those on death row before leaving office. Others argued that an execution was a fitting remedy for hate-fueled mass killer.
Advocates for death-row inmates were also pushing Biden for blanket pardons after he campaigned in 2020 on eliminating the death penalty.Biden's commutations on Monday reduced the sentences of 37 ...