Biden commutes life sentence of Leonard Peltier, Native American activist imprisoned for almost 50 years
The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his remaining days in home confinement.
UPDATE: Biden issues final pardons, commutes life sentence of Leonard Peltier
WASHINGTON (KFYR) - UPDATE (1/20/2025 at 2:25 p.m.): Former President Joe Biden commuted Leonard Peltier’s life sentence, amid a series of 11th-hour pardons and commutations.
President Biden commutes Pine Ridge man Leonard Peltier’s life sentence
WASHINGTON DC (Dakota News Now) - In the final hour of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of 80-year-old Leonard Peltier. Peltier is a Native American activist who has been serving life in prison after being convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975.
Biden commutes sentence for Leonard Peltier, convicted in FBI killings
The Native American activist says he did not receive a fair trial in the slayings of FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in killing of FBI agents
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.
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