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

WASHINGTON (KFGO)—Former Fargo Mayor Jon Lindgren says he was shocked and amazed that former President Joe Biden commuted Leonard Peltier’s sentence on his last day in office. Peltier was sentenced to life in prison in 1977 for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. His trial was held in Fargo.

The last-minute decision allows the 80-year-old Leonard Peltier to serve the remainder of his sentence under home confinement.

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.

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

FBI Agents Association members said in a statement that they were “outraged” by Biden’s decision in the last hours of his presidency to commute the sentence of Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975.

Ann Alquist speaks with journalist Brian Bull about the significance of President Biden commuting the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier.

Former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who had been imprisoned for nearly 50 years, on Jan. 20.

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