NBC News
Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who has always maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents 50 years ago, returned to his home Tuesday in North Dakota hours after his release from a federal prison in Florida after then-President Joe Biden commuted his two life sentences.
The act of clemency permits Peltier, who is 80 and has been in declining health for years, to serve his remaining days in home confinement.
Peltier was transferred by jet to the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, and will be welcomed with celebrations to “reconnect with his home community and adjust back into life among his people,” the NDN Collective, an Indigenous-led advocacy organization, said in a statement. More
The history on the case Here
Where can I send him a case of firewater?
And some blankets infected with smallpox.
The case file makes for some interesting reading, especially in response to those who insist he’s innocent of this crime. It reads like he did the most shooting and applied the coup de grace to the two agents at close range and when they were wounded and down.
Life was better back when we had capital punishment for murder. Especially double murder.