The outgoing 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.

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.

Biden commuted the life sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has been in prison since his conviction for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. Activists have spent decades lobbying for clemency for Peltier,

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

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