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

Minutes before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa member Leonard Peltier's life sentence.

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.

In one of his final acts while in office, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence for activist Leonard Peltier, who has already served 49 years in prison in the shooting deaths of two federal agents during a standoff at Pine Ridge 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

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden commutes sentence for indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of 2 FBI agents. READ MORE: Defending against possible Trump ‘revenge,’ Biden pardons Fauci, Milley and Jan. 6 committee members

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.

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.

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving life in prison.