In one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who has been in prison for nearly five decades following his conviction for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
The decision, made just moments before President Donald Trump was sworn into office, allows the 80-year-old Peltier to serve the remainder of his sentence under home confinement, but it stops short of granting him a full pardon.
Peltier was convicted in the deaths of FBI special agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler during a standoff at South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. For decades, Peltier’s case has been a rallying cry for…
