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 commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his ...
The band are longtime advocates for the imprisoned Indigenous rights advocate, who was granted clemency at the end of Biden's ...
With a new administration in the White House, Democrats in South Dakota are wondering what the administration will do to ...
Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight Co-Vice Chairman Kevin Sharp represented Mr. Peltier for 5 years, filing Mr. Peltier’s original clemency petition in December 2019 and refiling it again in 2021, before ...
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