Sumterville, FL – Today, President Biden granted Leonard Peltier executive clemency and commuted the remainder of his sentence. The president’s decision
It saddens me it took this long, but Leonard Peltier is finally free!
He’s one of the longest held political prisoners in the US, arrested officially for killing 2 feds that shot at a truck he was in. There’s a good chance he wasn’t even there based on alibis, and evidence since his trial have been recanted and invalidated but the sentencing was never overturned. His real crime was being a leader of AIM
Who? What is he being granted clemency for? The article doesn’t give any background.
He’s one of the longest held political prisoners in the US, arrested officially for killing 2 feds that shot at a truck he was in. There’s a good chance he wasn’t even there based on alibis, and evidence since his trial have been recanted and invalidated but the sentencing was never overturned. His real crime was being a leader of AIM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Peltier