6 days ago · After many years of petitioning and legal battles American Indian Movement activist, Leonard Peltier, is going home. ... Joe Biden issued a public statement granting Leonard Peltier executive clemency. This commuted the remainder of his life sentence to home confinement, which the 80-year-old member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa ...

Jan 20, 2025 · President Joe Biden commuted Peltier’s sentence Monday following decades of community-led advocacy calling his imprisonment an example of the U.S. government’s mistreatment of Native Americans. The White House said Peltier, who is now 80 and of declining health, will transition to home confinement.

4 days ago · January 28, 2025 (Washington, D.C.) - Just minutes before leaving office, Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life prison sentence of Leonard Peltier, the elderly American Indian Movement activist ...

Jan 20, 2025 · American Indian Movement activist was sentenced to life in prison for killings of 2 FBI agents. ... U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who ...

Jan 20, 2025 · 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 ...

Jan 20, 2025 · After nearly 50 years of imprisonment, Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has been granted clemency by outgoing President Joe Biden, finally securing freedom for the 80-year-old man.

Jan 20, 2025 · Biden’s action Monday follows decades of lobbying and protests by Native American leaders and others who maintain Peltier was wrongfully convicted. Amnesty International has long considered him ...

Jan 20, 2025 · Left: Activists participate in a protest to urge President Joe Biden to grant Native American activist Leonard Peltier clemency outside of the White House in September 2023 in Washington. Photo by ...

Jan 20, 2025 · President Biden commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was controversially convicted of murdering two FBI agents in 1975, within the final hour of his presidency.

Jan 20, 2025 · In one of his last official acts before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden released Leonard Peltier from prison. ... At the time, leaders of the American Indian Movement (AIM) demanded ...