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

A nearly 50-year-long legal saga is coming to an end after President Biden commuted the life prison sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier earlier this week. A jury found Peltier guilty ...

Later, as a reporter and host for MIGIZI Communications weekly Native American radio program, Raymond covered Leonard Peltier’s trial in North Dakota and a separate trial in Wisconsin.

President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist ... and evidence presented in other trials was excluded from Peltier’s case. James Reynolds, the ...

“They treated Leonard Peltier differently ... Wray dismissed Peltier’s claims of an unfair trial as meritless and accused his sympathizers of “wrongly promot[ing] him as a standard-bearer ...

Leonard Peltier, who was serving a life sentence ... were acquitted of the same charges in separate trials. Peltier fled to Canada after the incident but was eventually extradited to the U.S ...

“The President is commuting the life sentence imposed on Leonard Peltier so that he serves ... in the murders but were acquitted on evidence Peltier’s defense was not allowed to present. The trial and ...

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.

“President Biden was right to commute the life sentence of Indigenous elder and activist Leonard Peltier given the serious human rights concerns about the fairness of his trial,” Paul O ...

"Leonard Peltier's liberation is our liberation ... But dozens of people had participated in the gunfight; at trial, two co-defendants were acquitted after they claimed self-defense.

President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier ... and evidence presented in other trials was excluded from Peltier’s case. James Reynolds, the prosecutor who ...