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Shannon Wayne Agofsky and Len Davis both filed emergency petitions prevent their death sentences from being commuted to life in prison without parole.

UPDATE (June 13, 2024, 6:06 p.m. ET): President Joe Biden said Thursday that he won’t commute his son Hunter Biden’s sentence. I confess that I hadn’t considered the possibility of a Hunter Biden ...

On Friday, it was announced that Missouri Gov. Mike Parson commuted the sentence of former Kansas City, Missouri, Police ...

President Joe Biden announced Thursday he is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who were placed on home confinement during the COVID pandemic and pardoning 39 others convicted of ...

David Gentile spent just days in prison for his conviction in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that ...

Two of the 37 inmates on federal death row whose sentences were commuted to life without parole last month by President Biden are rejecting clemency. Shannon Agofsky, 53, and Len Davis, 60, who are ...

In simple terms, a commutation reduces a criminal penalty. This may include shortening a prison sentence or replacing a death sentence with life imprisonment. Unlike a pardon, which forgives a crime ...

On Jan. 17, 2017, President Obama made perhaps the highest-profile clemency decision of his presidency, in its final hours. Namely, he granted a commutation to Chelsea Manning, the U.S. Army soldier ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A commutation hearing will happen for Ralph Menzies. Menzies execution by firing squad is just over five weeks away, on September 5th. In an order published to their website ...

Delaware’s high court says no coverage: a firefighter’s 2023 back flare-up was a recurrence, and a prior commutation left no carrier responsible to pay benefits.

“I have to be honest with you, I couldn’t breathe." Just the letter alone notifying Audrey and Bruce Carlson that their daughter Elizabeth’s ex-boyfriend and murderer had applied for commutation was ...