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Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who has always maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents 50 years ago, was released Tuesday morning from a federal prison in Florida ...
Joe Biden, in one of his final acts as president Monday, commuted the life sentence of Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents on the Pine ...
In one of his last acts before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just moments before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. Peltier was denied parole as recently as July and wasn’t eligible for parole again until 2026. He was serving life in prison for the killings ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier will return home nearly half a century after he was imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. President Joe Biden commuted Peltier's sentence Monday following decades of community-led advocacy calling his imprisonment an example of the U.S. government's mistreatment of Native Americans.
President Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was controversially convicted of murdering two FBI agents, within the final hour of his ...
On January 19, 2025, the last full day of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted Peltier's life sentence to home confinement beginning on February 18, 2025. [72] [73] Peltier was released on that date. [7] His son said that the Turtle Mountain Band has a home arranged for him on the reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota.
Then-President Joe Biden commuted Peltier's life sentence to home confinement, leading to his release Tuesday from the Coleman penitentiary. Peltier was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and given two consecutive life sentences stemming from a 1975 confrontation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.