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

Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement, which began in the 1960s as a local organization in Minneapolis.

The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his ...

President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, 80, allowing the American Indian Movement member to serve the rest of his sentence on home confinement. Peltier was ...

Former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who had been imprisoned for nearly 50 years, on Jan. 20.

Biden issued the sweeping pardons just minutes before he departed the White House for the final time as president ...

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Monday, moments before Donald Trump’s inauguration, President Joe Biden commuted the ...

Joe Biden, in one of his final acts as president ... Band of Chippewa Indians and then an activist with the American Indian Movement, a grassroots Indigenous rights group — was identified ...

President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of activist Leonard Peltier, who was controversially convicted of ...

With just moments left before he leaves office, President Joe Biden commuted the life ... Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement, which began in the 1960s as a local organization ...

With one week left in office, the president could end his term with an act of mercy by granting clemency to the ailing Native American rights activist.

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 ...