Joe Biden commutes sentence of Leonard Peltier, who murdered two FBI agents 50 years ago

By Lee Williams

President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, who was serving life in prison for the June 1975 killings of FBI Special Agents Ronald A. Williams, (Left) and Jack R. Coler (Right). (Photo courtesy of the FBI).By Lee WilliamsFormer President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of American Indian activist and convicted double murderer Leonard Peltier just minutes before leaving the White House Monday. Peltier was in federal prison for murdering FBI Special Agents Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation nearly 50 years ago.Peltier, who is now 80 and suffering poor health, said “It’s finally over. I’m going home,” according to an advocacy group. Peltier is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe in North Dakota.Biden mentioned Peltier’s commutation briefly in a written statement explaining his commutation of two other officials. “I am also commuting the life sentence imposed on Leonard Peltier so that he serves the remainder of his sentence in home confinement,” the statement reads.The FBI has long stressed Peltier’s guilt and fought hard against any parole or commutation of his life sentence.“Over the last 45 years, no fewer than 22 federal judges have evaluated

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