Two men sitting on death row refuse to sign the paperwork that would have their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment, which President Joe Biden ordered. The two men filed emergency motions to block their commutations, as they said such an action would deprive them of efforts to prove their innocence.
Shannon Agofsky, 53, and Len Davis, 60, are sitting on death row at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.
“To commute his sentence now, while the defendant has active litigation in court, is to strip him of the protection of heightened scrutiny. This constitutes an undue burden, and leaves the defendant in a position of fundamental unfairness, which would decimate his pending appellate procedures,” Agofsky’s motion states, according to NBC News.
Davis “has always maintained that having a death sentence would draw attention to the overwhelming misconduct”…
