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.

2 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 ...

4 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 · In his final moments as president, Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Peltier, a member of the American Indian Movement, who had been imprisoned for nearly 50 years for his conviction for ...

Jan 20, 2025 · In one of his last acts before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.

Jan 20, 2025 · As one of his last official acts, President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, 80, allowing the American Indian Movement member to serve the rest of his...

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 · Thirty-five Indigenous leaders and allies arrested outside the White House this afternoon as they join hundreds of Tribal leaders and supporters in urging President Joe Biden to grant clemency to imprisoned Native American activist Leonard Peltier on his 79th birthday on Tuesday September,12, 2023 in Washington.

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 ...

Dec 13, 2024 · Peltier was involved in the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970s, which led him to travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota amid tensions between the tribal chairman and...