The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.

Former reporter Mike Schilling recalls his Springfield prison interview with activist Leonard Peltier, whose sentence was ...

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Leonard Peltier’s was it,” said Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, the top Democrat on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, who has long championed a pardon for Mr. Peltier. “President Biden ...

The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his remaining days in home confinement.

With just minutes left as president, Joe Biden on Monday pardoned his entire immediate family—and gave clemency to prominent Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

In a statement, Biden said Peltier is to serve the remainder of his sentence at home and reiterated it’s not a pardon. What to knowabout Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier Minnesota tribal ...

He has made history today, granting thousands of commutations, clemency overall, pardons in his last weeks. The question is: Will he grant clemency to Leonard Peltier? Over 120 tribal leaders are ...

Steven Senne / AP Just moments before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard ... opposed a pardon or any reduction in Peltier’s sentence ...

The day that Rage Against the Machine has longed for since the start of their career has finally come as jailed indigenous activist Leonard Peltier had his sentence commuted by outgoing President ...

While Biden granted sweeping pardons and clemencies to 37 prisoners ... activist and federal prisoner Leonard Peltier. Now 80 years old, frail and ill, Peltier is serving two consecutive life ...