Leonard Peltier, FBI
Killer and American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier to receive welcome home bash 49 years after conviction in FBI agents' murders at Pine Ridge.
The Indigenous activist was serving two life sentences for the 1975 killings, which he argued were in self-defense.
Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a Florida prison, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home confinem
Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
Leonard Peltier, who has been described as a “remorseless killer” after being convicted of killing two FBI agents on a South Dakota reservation, was released after nearly five decades in prison after being granted clemency by former President Biden during one of his final acts while in office.
Indigenous activists who maintain his innocence celebrated the release as a decades-overdue victory, while law enforcement officials called it a mistake.
Peltier's imprisonment had symbolized systemic injustice for Native Americans across the country who believe in his innocence.
Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence.
Leonard Peltier remains defiant in AP interview, maintaining innocence and vowing continued activism
More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant. He maintains his innocence in the deaths of two FBI agents in 1975 and sees his newfound freedom — the result of a commutation from former President Joe Biden — as the beginning of a new phase of his activism.
The Turtle Mountain activist talks with a Cherokee journalist at The Associated Press in his first sit-down interview
Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden commuted his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 killings of
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