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Death row serial killer Iouri Mikhel declines Joe Biden's commutation and asks judge to reject it
Iouri Mikhel was sentenced to death in 2007 after being convicted of a kidnapping-for-ransom scheme in California where he ...
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“Death Is Different”: Why 2 Men Are Fighting Against Biden’s Commutation
On December 30, two men filed handwritten, emergency petitions from the death row unit in USP Terre Haute, a federal prison ...
Southwest Missouri man denied appeal of commutation
A federal judge has denied a motion by a former Southwest Missouri man who seeks to overturn the commutation of his death sentence by then-President Joe Biden. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, 53, formerly of ...
DOJ rejects argument death row inmates can object to Biden’s commutation
The DOJ said that while not only are commutations legal, the president additionally has the authority to decide commutations.
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2 inmates sentenced to death don’t want President Biden’s commutation to life in prison
The couple had been discussing the possibility since Biden’s election, she said.Shannon Agofsky was sentenced to death for the 2001 killing of Luther Plant, another inmate at the U.S ...
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Southwest Missouri man denied appeal of commutation
Shannon Wayne Agofsky, 53, formerly of Noel, was one of 37 prisoners whose death sentences were commuted to sentences of life in prison without parole. Agofsky has been incarcerated at the Terre ...