FBI Director nominee Kash Patel decried Biden’s inexcusable act of callous imperiousness, “Biden has repeatedly failed to support the men and women of law enforcement, and this disgraceful action is the final insult to their service and sacrifice…Leonard Peltier is the epitome of evil and should have died in prison for his heinous crimes."
President Joe Biden has sparked outrage after commuting the sentence of Leonard Peltier in a last-minute move before leaving office Monday.
Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
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.
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One of Joe Biden’s final acts as president Monday was to grant clemency to an Indigenous activist convicted of fatally shooting two FBI agents execution-style in the head in 1975. Leonard Peltier, 80,
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.
In one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who has been in prison for nearly five decades following his conviction for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his remaining days in home confinement.
President Biden said the decision will allow Peltier, an 80-year-old Native American activist, to fulfill the remainder of his sentence from home.
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 Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving life in prison