A prisoner who killed a Benton County man and a fellow inmate in 2004 and had his death sentence commuted by President Joe Biden refuses to sign his paperwork accepting the clemency action.

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis argued that President Joe Biden’s commutations hinder their chance of appeal as they seek to prove their innocence.

"The defendant never requested commutation. The defendant never filed for commutation," Agofsky wrote in his filing. "The defendant does not want commutation, and refused to sign the papers offered with the commutation.