Peltier clemency denied: 40 years later, what does AIM mean to Native American activism?

One name was conspicuously not among them: Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who has served more than 40 years in prison after being convicted in 1977 of killing two FBI agents at a South Dakota reservation. “He looks upon it as a death sentence,” Peltier’s attorney, Martin Garbus, tells The Christian Science Monitor. Amnesty International, which considers Peltier a political prisoner, said it was “deeply saddened,” though former FBI agent Ed Woods, who has long campaigned against freeing Peltier, thanked the president in a statement.