Biden commutes Leonard Peltier, sending him home to North Dakota to carry out life sentence
On his final day in office, President Joe Biden commuted Leonard Peltier, an 80-year-old Turtle Mountain Chippewa man convicted of killing two FBI agents. Many Indigenous communities around the state and nation are celebrating the decision.
Native activist Leonard Peltier to serve remainder of sentence at home after Biden order
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.
The band are longtime advocates for the imprisoned Indigenous rights advocate, who was granted clemency at the end of Biden's ...
The president commuted Peltier over the objection of former FBI Director Christopher Wray. In a private letter sent to Biden ...
Native leaders, journalists and those impacted by the 1975 shootout on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that led ...
With a new administration in the White House, Democrats in South Dakota are wondering what the administration will do to ...
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