Sundance: David France and Jesse Short Bull's film tackles the 50-year story of activism surrounding the contentious ...
The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his ...
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 ...
By Emily Cochrane President Biden commuted the prison sentence of Leonard Peltier, an imprisoned Native American rights activist, using his final minutes of presidential power on Monday to free a ...
They cite Peltier’s advanced age, illnesses, his close ties to and leadership in the Native American community, and the substantial length of time he has already spent in prison. ‘I just want to free ...
Joe Biden, in one of his final acts as president Monday, commuted the life sentence of Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents on the Pine ...