Biden sparks outrage with last-minute commutation of man convicted of killing FBI agents
President Joe Biden has sparked outrage after commuting the sentence of Leonard Peltier in a last-minute move before leaving office Monday.
Biden commutes sentence for Leonard Peltier, convicted in FBI killings
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.
Biden commutes sentence of Native American activist convicted of killing FBI agents
The last-minute decision allows the 80-year-old Leonard Peltier to serve the remainder of his sentence under home confinement.
Biden commutes Leonard Peltier’s sentence to home confinement in 1975 killing of FBI agents
American Indian activist Leonard Peltier speaks during a 1999 interview at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. President Joe Biden commuted to home confinement Peltier's life sentence after he spent most of his life in prison for the killing of two FBI agents in South Dakota in 1975.
Biden's Clemency for Activist Peltier 'As Good as Freedom'; Blasted by FBI Director
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.
Biden commutes life sentence for South Dakota Native American activist Leonard Peltier
President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who has been imprisoned for nearly 50 years. Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians,
Biden frees radical left-wing killer convicted in FBI agents' murders during last hours as president
Left-wing activist and convicted double murderer Leonard Peltier will go free from prison thanks to a last-minute commutation from former President Biden.
Biden commutes sentence of Indigenous activist who murdered two FBI agents: ‘Cruel betrayal to the families’
This last-second, disgraceful act by then-President Biden, which does not change [Leonard] Peltier’s guilt but does release him from prison, is cowardly and lacks accountability,” the ...
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