Native American activist Leonard Peltier said spending the rest of his life in home confinement after being granted clemency by former President Joe Biden is "as good as freedom," after Biden's own FBI director opposed commutation for a man sentenced to life for the killing of two FBI agents.
Adrian Peeler convicted of conspiracy to murder in case that left a mother and her son dead before they could testify against his brother, another killer.
In one of his last acts before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
The FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) released a statement ripping former President Joe Biden for his last-minute move to commute the
The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.
American Indian activist Leonard Peltier speaks during a 1999 interview at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. President Joe Biden commuted to home confinement Peltier's life sentence after he spent most of his life in prison for the killing of two FBI agents in South Dakota in 1975.
President Biden said the decision will allow Peltier, an 80-year-old Native American activist, to fulfill the remainder of his sentence from home.
There’s good reason to believe that the president’s campaign of revenge will be felt throughout the federal government.
Two weeks after Election Day 2016, Donald Trump made big news by suggesting that he didn’t really want to see Hillary Clinton prosecuted. This despite him having told Clinton to her face that if he were president,
Just over 1,500 people accused of storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will have their sentences commuted or pardoned, or charges dismissed.
Critics immediately tore into the former intel boss, with one calling him a “pathetic liar” about the laptop’s provenance.