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

Former President Biden commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents, against the urgings of former FBI Director Christopher Wray.

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.

The president commuted Peltier over the objection of former FBI Director Christopher Wray. In a private letter sent to Biden earlier this month and obtained by The Associated Press, Wray reiterated his position that “Peltier is a remorseless killer,” and urged the president not to act.

Former President Joe Biden signed a number of pardons and commutations on his way out of the White House as per tradition, according to new information.

President Biden commutes Leonard Peltier's life sentence to home confinement after 50 years in prison, responding to longtime advocacy from tribal nations and supporters.

Before former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier on Monday, he received a warning from outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray. Peltier was convicted of killing two FBI agents in the 1970s.

Biden issued the sweeping pardons just minutes before he departed the White House for the final time as president

President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of killing two FBI agents nearly 50 years ago in South Dakota.

When the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (NACP) endorsed Donald Trump in the United States' 2024 presidential race, some of the police officers who were violently attacked on January 6,

After 50 Years in prison on a double life-sentence Indigenous activist gets home confinement on his tribal reservation with family President Biden,