At issue is the belief by the two inmates – both of whom maintain their innocence – that Biden's commutation puts them at a legal disadvantage as they appeal their cases.

President Joe Biden had the death sentences of 37 federal inmates commuted last month—but two of those prisoners are refusing to sign the paperwork that would save them from the death chamber. Biden’s clemency action sees the inmates’ death sentences being commuted to life in prison without parole.

The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on federal land and those involved in deadly bank robberies or drug deals.

President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences​. Their sentences will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

A Chicago podiatrist convicted in the 2002 shooting of a church worker had his federal death sentence commuted by President Joe Biden.

President-elect Donald Trump says he'll “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions.

The 37 federal death row inmates whose sentences have been commuted to life without parole include four men who committed their crimes in Missouri. Two of those men, Norris Holder and Billie Allen, were convicted of murdering a security guard in 1997 while robbing a bank in St.

A pair of inmates on death row are thumbing their noses at President Joe Biden's commutations of their sentences, according to a report. Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis, inmates at a penitentiary in Terre Haute,