Regarding the Jan. 25 comments from your Editorial Board Roundtable on the recent presidential pardons and commutations (”An orgy of pardoning as Biden leaves office and Trump becomes president”), I hope you will publish a more complete story regarding the Leonard Peltier release from prison.Peltier was not pardoned; his sentence was commuted to home confinement. He is 80 years old and in ill health and has served almost 50 years in prison. He h…

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He was convicted of the death of two FBI agents and sentenced in 1977 to life imprisonment, despite defence allegations that the evidence against him had been falsified.

Fue declarado culpable por la muerte de dos agentes del FBI y condenado en 1977 a cadena perpetua, a pesar de las alegaciones de la defensa de que las pruebas contra él habían sido falsificadas.

La historia de Leonard Peltier, el activista indígena al que Biden le conmutó la pena | Tras casi 50 años de estar en prisión

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Among Joe Biden’s final actions as his presidential term wound to a close was the commutation of Leonard Peltier, an 80-year-old Indigenous activist who had been federally imprisoned for almost 50 years. Peltier was the longest imprisoned Native American political prisoner in U.S. history and one of the oldest people held in federal detention.  The announcement of Peltier’s release marks the culmination of a decadeslong campaign led by Indigenou…

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Indigenous groups celebrate Leonard Peltier’s release from prison

Indigenous rights activist Leonard Peltier was a political prisoner for nearly half a century until he had his life sentence commuted on Jan 20, 2025, to serve the remainder of this sentence at home, effective February 18, 2025. The 80-year-old member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Peltier has been at the center of controversy and a cause famous among global human rights advocates. In 1975 he allegedly killed two FBI agents on …

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Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier Granted Clemency After Decades in Prison - UNICORN RIOT

Indigenous rights activist Leonard Peltier was a political prisoner for nearly half a century until he had his life sentence commuted on Jan 20, 2025, to serve the remainder of this sentence at home, effective February 18, 2025. The 80-year-old...

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