The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his ...

President Biden's decision to commute Leonard Peltier's sentence after nearly five decades of imprisonment represents a ...

In one of his last acts before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist ...

Senator Richard Marcellais, D-Belcourt, former chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa ... Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement, which has grappled with police brutality ...

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 ...

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.

The president commuted Peltier over the objection of former FBI Director Christopher Wray. In a private letter sent to Biden ...

a Native American activist who has been imprisoned for nearly 50 years. Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of ...

According to the officials, Peltier — a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and then an activist with the American Indian Movement, a grassroots Indigenous rights group ...

He had been part of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians ... The agents stumbled upon an American Indian Movement encampment, and gunfire was exchanged during a confrontation.