With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden on Monday granted clemency to Leonard Peltier, the ailing Native American rights activist whom the U.S. government put in prison nearly 50 years ago after a trial riddled with misconduct and lies.
Virtually every international human rights leader in modern history, including Pope Francis and Nelson Mandela, has called for Peltier's release over the years ― as have some of the same people who put Peltier in prison in the first place.
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