With just moments left before he leaves office, President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving life in prison.

Native American activist Leonard Peltier said spending the rest of his life in home confinement after being granted clemency by former President Joe Biden is "as good as freedom," after Biden's own FBI director opposed commutation for a man sentenced to life for the killing of two FBI agents.

President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of activist Leonard Peltier, who was controversially convicted of murdering two FBI agents, within the final hour of his presidency.

Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.

After nearly 50 years in prison, Peltier, convicted in the fatal shootings of two FBI agents on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation, will soon be heading home.

American Indian activist Leonard Peltier speaks during a 1999 interview at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. President Joe Biden commuted to home confinement Peltier's life sentence after he spent most of his life in prison for the killing of two FBI agents in South Dakota in 1975.

In one of his final acts before leaving office, President Biden commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, a member of the American Indian Movement who was convicted of killing two federal agents

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The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.

With just minutes left as president, Joe Biden on Monday pardoned his entire immediate family—and gave clemency to prominent Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

The outgoing Biden administration has released Leonard Peltier from prison. Numerous activists and tribal officials have requested the release of Peltier, whom they believe to be innocent of killing two FBI agents in 1975.