Leonard Peltier, who has been described as a “remorseless killer” after being convicted of killing two FBI agents on a South Dakota reservation, was released after nearly five decades in prison after being granted clemency by former President Biden during one of his final acts while in office.
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 South Dakota reservation,
Leonard Peltier is on his return journey to Turtle Mountain. The Forum has a news team on site to document his return to North Dakota after 49 years in prison.
Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from prison into home confinement in Turtle Mountain after serving 49 years.
Leonard Peltier as a younger man being led across ... a 1975 confrontation on the in Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in which the two FBI agents were killed. According to the FBI ...
Leonard Peltier (Photo courtesy of the Leonard Peltier Ad Hoc Committee) On Friday, NDN Collective – a South Dakota-based Native nonprofit organization that has advocated for his release – announced that Peltier would travel home to the Turtle Mountain ...