Leonard Peltier holds a copy of his commutation in Belcourt, N.D, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave) ...

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, whose life sentence for killing two FBI agents was commuted by then-President Biden, has been released from a high-security Florida prison.

Peltier was convicted in 1975 in the deaths of two FBI agents. Former President Biden commuted Peltier's sentence, despite a plea from the former head of the FBI not to do so.

More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier maintains his innocence in the deaths of two FBI agents.

Chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz made a plea to President Joe Biden on behalf of Leonard Peltier asking that Biden grant clemency to American Indian Movement ...

Documentarians worked quickly to change up the ending of 'Free Leonard Peltier' after Biden commuted Peltier's sentence.

The ongoing fight for Leonard Peltier’s clemency President Joe Biden made the decision to commute his sentence after he spent nearly half a century behind bars ...

Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in killing of FBI agents The fight for Peltier’s freedom is entangled with the Indigenous rights movements. Nearly half ...

Sumterville, FL – Today, President Biden granted Leonard Peltier executive clemency and commuted the remainder of his sentence. The president’s decision is the result of decades of grassroots ...

'Free Leonard Peltier' is premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. It's getting a new ending, just like its subject. The Native American activist has been imprisoned for nearly 50 years after a ...

President Biden said the decision will allow Peltier, an 80-year-old Native American activist, to fulfill the remainder of his sentence from home.

In one of his last acts before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.