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Leonard Peltier was released after former President Joe Biden commuted his sentence for the murder of two FBI agents during a ...

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Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1970s of murdering two FBI agents, was released from ...

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a high-security Florida prison. For nearly half a century, Peltier's imprisonment has symbolized systemic injustice for Native Americans who ...

A Bay Area relative of Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975 and had his sentence commuted by ...

COLEMAN, Fla. >> Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing two FBI agents and incarcerated for nearly five decades while maintaining his innocence, was released from a Florida ...