Commutation · December 23, 2024

Summary

On December 23, 2024, President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Len Davis, who was convicted in the Eastern District of Louisiana in 2005 of conspiracy against civil rights resulting in murder and aiding and abetting violations of civil rights. Davis had been sentenced to death for his role in the 1994 murder of Kim Groves, an African American resident of New Orleans who had filed a complaint against him with the police department's Internal Affairs Division.