Moments before he left office and as one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, an 80-year-old Native American activist and political prisoner who has been incarcerated for nearly half a century for a crime he maintains he did not commit. Biden’s commutation is not a full pardon — Peltier, who was charged under dubious circumstances for the…
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