Just moments before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier ... reservation — leading to a 71-day standoff with federal agents.
Three cabinet nominees ‒ Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel ‒ faced a questions from Senate confirmation ...
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 ...
As recently as a week ago, Free Leonard Peltier ended with its now 80-year-old subject simply plaintively hoping he’d be released one day. The new cut premiering in Park City Monday features a ...
By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic Late in Jesse Short Bull and David France’s new documentary Free Leonard Peltier ... who were at Pine Ridge on the day of the shootout.
The warning comes after the joyous twist of clemency for the Indigenous activist, as shown in a Sundance film premiering Monday ...
But “Free Leonard Peltier” makes it very clear what a terrible injustice it has been for the serving of justice to have taken so much time. The final moments might make you smile, or maybe ...
On January 19, 2025, former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the prison sentence of Leonard Peltier ... President Biden commuted Peltier's prison sentence on his final day in office.
WASHINGTON ― With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden on Monday granted clemency to Leonard Peltier ... prosecutors hid evidence that exonerated Peltier. A juror acknowledged on the ...
President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of killing two FBI agents nearly 50 years ago in South Dakota. Peltier, 80, is a ...
AFTER 49 years and 11 months, Leonard ... Stuntz. Peltier and several others from AIM were accused of killing the FBI agents, and in 1977, Peltier was convicted and given two consecutive life ...