Prisoners, who maintain they are innocent, believe that the decision by the current US president goes against their defense.
Two prisoners sentenced to death refused the pardon granted last December by the then US President, Joe Biden.
Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis – both inmates at the Terre Haute, Indiana, prison – refused to sign documents that would release them from death row and place them in prison for life without parole and have filed a petition in court to block their clemency. granted by Joe Biden go ahead.
The prisoners believe that by accepting the pardon their defense loses strength, since, according to NBC News, they have always claimed innocence and even have an appeal in progress.
Shannon Agofsky, 53, was sentenced to death in 2004 for killing an inmate who was serving a prison sentence with him in Texas. At that time, the American was already serving a life sentence for kidnapping, murder and robbery of a bank administrator, committed in 1989.
Len Davis, 60, is a former police officer from New Orleans, Louisiana, convicted of hiring a hitman to kill, in 1994, a woman who had filed a complaint against him after seeing him assaulting a teenager.
It should be remembered that last December, Joe Biden granted pardons to 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes and commuted the sentences of almost 1,500 who were serving long prison sentences.
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