A federal judge has requested that Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office comment on the appropriateness of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s decision to end pursuit of the death penalty for a convicted double-murderer.

U.S. District Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania had previously denied the District Attorney’s Office’s request to vacate the death sentence handed down to Robert Wharton for murdering a West Philadelphia couple in their home and leaving their infant daughter for dead.