The Department of Justice this week argued that two prisoners on federal death row who want their presidential commutations nullified must accept them, NBC News reported.

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis, inmates on federal death row in Indiana, filed emergency injunctions last week to block the change in their sentences, saying that the move could affect their ongoing appeals. 

Agofsky and his brother, Joseph Agofsky, were convicted of the 1989 murder of Dan Short, a bank president in Arkansas, after abducting and robbing him. Davis, a former New Orleans police officer, was convicted of arranging the 1994 murder of Kim Groves, who had filed a complaint accusing Davis of brutalizing a teenager.

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