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Before former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier on Monday, he received a warning from outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray. Peltier was ...
Leonard Peltier, the 80-year-old activist and "remorseless killer" who has been in prison for just shy of 50 years in connection with a 1975 ambush shooting that left two FBI agents dead on a ...
PHOENIX — Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier was denied parole on Tuesday after serving nearly 50 years in federal prison for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, a case that ...
Among them is former FBI Director Christopher Wray ... including some who waved flags saying "Free Leonard Peltier," were elated. "We never thought he would get out," said Ray St. Clair, a ...
Leonard Peltier, the Indigenous activist convicted of the 1975 murders of two FBI agents, has been denied parole from federal prison, his attorney told CNN on Tuesday. Peltier, 79, has long ...
Leonard Peltier as a younger man being led across the ... in Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in which the two FBI agents were killed. According to the FBI, Coler and Williams were ...
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For nearly five decades, Leonard Peltier has remained behind bars, serving a pair of life sentences for the murder of two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South ...
Leonard Peltier, an Indigenous activist imprisoned nearly 50 years ago in the killings of two FBI agents, is awaiting the outcome of his first parole hearing in 15 years, all the while struggling ...
So why is Peltier still in prison? The FBI doesn’t want him released. Ever. “The FBI remains resolute in our opposition to ...
that I now write to call on FBI Director Christopher Wray to right a wrong. Wray recently opposed the parole of Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Peltier is serving two consecutive life ...
The FBI has no regard for the Constitution or the laws they have sworn an oath to protect.” In response to the U.S. Parole Commission denying Leonard Peltier’s request for parole after a ...