As recently as a week ago, Free Leonard Peltier ended with its now 80-year ... s portrayal are nothing less than a sacrifice of an innocent man on the altar of FBI appeasement.
President Biden's decision to commute Leonard Peltier's sentence after nearly five decades of imprisonment represents a significant shift in federal-tribal relations.
Leonard Peltier was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents, Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, during a standoff on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. His trial was held in ...
19 commuting Leonard Peltier's prison sentence. The commutation, which takes effect Feb. 18, is not a pardon but will allow Peltier to serve the remainder of his sentence in home confinement.
Fifty years later, on his last day in office, President Biden granted clemency to Leonard Peltier, who murdered Williams. Mr. Peltier then fled to Canada, firing at Oregon State Police officers on ...
It’s not even past.’ It’s the sort of twist no screenwriter would dare invent: “Free Leonard Peltier,” a persuasively well-researched and often infuriating documentary about the American ...
“Free Leonard Peltier,” the new documentary about the imprisoned Indigenous activist, whose life sentence was just commuted to house imprisonment by President Joe Biden days before this film’s ...