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Biden grants clemency to Native American activist Leonard Peltier, others at last minute
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Leonard Peltier’s sentence commuted: Biden grants Indigenous activist clemency in FBI agents’ 1975 deaths
Leonard Peltier’s family speaks after Biden commutes his sentence
After years of parole hearings, one of Former President Biden’s last acts in office commuted Peltier’s life sentence. He was serving it for the deadly stand-off on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Outgoing President Joe Biden issued a last-minute set of grants for clemency, which included members of his family, Democratic politicians and Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents in a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota — a charge that he has steadfastly denied.
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier will return home nearly half a century after he was imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
Rage Against the Machine celebrated the commutation of Indigenous rights activist Leonard Peltier's life sentence.
Before former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier on Monday, he received a warning from outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray. Peltier was convicted of killing two FBI agents in the 1970s.
Biden issued the sweeping pardons just minutes before he departed the White House for the final time as president
Mr. Biden emphasized that he did not believe his family did anything wrong, but he feared political attacks by Donald J. Trump.
President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of activist Leonard Peltier, who was controversially convicted of murdering two FBI agents, within the final hour of his presidency.
WASHINGTON (AP) — With just moments left before he leaves office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of killing two FBI agents nearly 50 years ago in South Dakota. Peltier, 80,
Law enforcement officers, former FBI agents, their families and prosecutors strongly opposed a pardon or any reduction in Peltier’s sentence. Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama rejected Peltier’s clemency requests, and he was denied parole in 1993, 2009 and 2024.
Biden Commutes Life Sentence for Indigenous Activist Leonard Peltier Convicted in FBI Agents' Deaths
President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
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