A man who kidnapped and killed a Noel, MO, banker in 1989 is among the 37 federal death row inmates who has had his sentence commuted by President Joe Biden.
Shannon Agofsky and his brother Joe were convicted of kidnapping Dan Short from his Benton, AR, home in 1989. the pair then forced him to open a safe at the State Bank of Noel from which the brothers stole $70,000. the two then dumped Short into Grand Lake while he was chained to a chair. Short was still alive when he was thrown into the water.
Joe Agofsky died in custody in 2013. Shannon Agofsky was serving a life sentence for the Short murder when he killed another inmate while incarcerated in Texas. For that crime, he was sentenced to death.
Following the clemency action of President Biden, Agofsky will now spend the rest of his life in a federal prison.
