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

The Native American activist says he did not receive a fair trial in the slayings of FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

The outgoing Biden administration has released Leonard Peltier from prison. Numerous activists and tribal officials have requested the release of Peltier, whom they believe to be innocent of killing two FBI agents in 1975.

The last-minute decision allows the 80-year-old Leonard Peltier to serve the remainder of his sentence under home confinement.

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, is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota.

Biden issued the sweeping pardons just minutes before he departed the White House for the final time as president

It opens in the near-present with Native American activists coming to Washington ... consider Peltier’s case to be a defining cause in his life? “Free Leonard Peltier” ultimately comes ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier will return home nearly half a century after he was imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. President Joe Biden commuted Peltier ...

WASHINGTON ― With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden on Monday granted clemency to Leonard Peltier, the ailing Native American rights activist whom the U.S. government put in prison nearly 50 years ago after a trial riddled with ...

"We were also at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C.," she said ... was surprised that President Biden granted clemency to Leonard Peltier. (Submitted by Denise Pictou Maloney ...

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