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Executive Grant of Clemency: Leonard Peltier
Monday, January 20, 2025
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The following is the full text of the executive grant of clemency to Leonard Peltier, signed by President Joe Biden on January 19, 2025. [PDF]
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:
I HEREBY COMMUTE the remainder of the total sentence of imprisonment imposed upon LEONARD PELTIER, Reg. No. 89637-132, to be served in its entirety on home confinement, to take effect on February 18, 2025. I leave intact all other components of the sentence.
I HEREBY DESIGNATE, direct, and empower the Pardon Attorney, as my representative, to deliver to the Bureau of Prisons a certified copy of the signed warrant as evidence of my action in order to carry into effect the terms of these grants of clemency, and to deliver a certified copy of the signed warrant to each person to whom I have granted clemency as evidence of my action.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name and caused the seal of the Department of Justice to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this 19th day of January in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Five and of the Independence of the United States the Two Hundred and Forty-Ninth.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.President Executive Grant of Clemency: Leonard Peltier

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