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.
An Oklahoma City attorney says he's spent nearly five years on a legal team representing a North Dakota man former President Joe Biden decided to grant clemency to Monday.
Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
Biden pardons family members and frees imprisoned activist Leonard Peltier in last official act - Biden issued the sweeping pardons just minutes before he departed the White House for the final time a
In one of his final acts before leaving office, President Biden commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, a member of the American Indian Movement who was convicted of killing two federal agents
Native American activist Leonard Peltier said spending the rest of his life in home confinement after being granted clemency by former President Joe Biden is "as good as freedom," after Biden's own FBI director opposed commutation for a man sentenced to life for the killing of two FBI agents.
Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, was convicted in 1977 for the murders of two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
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WASHINGTON – Shortly before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted Leonard Peltier’s life sentence to indefinite house arrest following decades of community activists fighting for his release.
Minutes before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa member Leonard Peltier's life sentence.
In his final hours as president, Joe Biden pardoned Marcus Garvey and commuted Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier’s life sentence to house arrest. Black and Indigenous activists celebrate these wins,