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.
Leonard Peltier, a citizen of the Turtle Mountain ... Mr. Biden said in the grant issued shortly before President-elect Donald J. Trump took his oath of office, will allow Mr. Peltier to serve ...
The decision, made just moments before President Donald Trump was sworn into office ... a large painting of jailed American Indian Leonard Peltier during a march on the National Day of Mourning ...
President Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving life in prison.
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Leonard Peltier was convicted of killing two ... The commutation came in the same release, issued while now-President Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony was getting underway at the U.S. Capitol ...
Christopher Wray, who became FBI director in 2017 before he retired Monday as President Donald Trump took office ... Do not pardon Leonard Peltier or cut his sentence short," Wray wrote.
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Native American activist Leonard Peltier said spending the rest of his life in home confinement after being granted clemency by former President Joe Biden is "as good as freedom," after Biden's own FBI director opposed commutation for a man sentenced to life for the killing of two FBI agents.
Sundance: David France and Jesse Short Bull's film tackles the 50-year story of activism surrounding the contentious conviction of the prominent American Indian Movement leader, whose sentence was commuted just one week before the film's premiere.