President Biden commuted the life sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in a case long disputed by Native American advocates. Why it ...
Senate Indian Affairs Committee Chair Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, in December had urged Biden to act, calling Peltier’s imprisonment a “historic wrong” and a “miscarriage of justice.” “If there was ever a ...
“If there was ever a case that merited compassionate release, Leonard Peltier’s is it,” Schatz said on the Senate floor. “Let an old man die with his family.” While the pardon has been ...