Former President Biden commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents, against the urgings of former FBI Director
Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
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NDN Collective’s founder and chief executive officer Nick Tilsen, who has fought for Peltier’s clemency, is looking forward to Peltier going home, though he said officials have indicated Peltier may not be released for several weeks.
This last-second, disgraceful act by then-President Biden, which does not change [Leonard] Peltier’s guilt but does release him from prison, is cowardly and lacks accountability,” the
Leonard Peltier has his life sentence commuted by President Biden during one of his last acts in the White House.
Peltier was acquitted of the charge in 1978. In one of his last official acts before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden released Leonard Peltier from prison. The action is an ...
Moments before he left office and as one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, an 80-year-old Native American activist and political prisoner who has been incarcerated for nearly half a century for a crime he maintains he did not commit.
Activists participate in a protest to urge U.S. President Joe Biden to grant Leonard Peltier clemency outside of the White House on September 12, 2023. This commutation, however, was expressly discouraged by law enforcement. Wray sent a letter to the White ...
Biden issued the sweeping pardons just minutes before he departed the White House for the final time as president
Jesse Short Bull and David France's documentary tells Peltier's story all the way through President Joe Biden's commutation.
Late in Jesse Short Bull and David France’s new documentary Free Leonard Peltier ... had to know was a possibility with Biden’s White House tenure coming to an end. Despite that preparation ...