Utoo Radio with Other News Sources - January 22, 2025 - Former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.

Peltier, 80, will serve the remainder of his sentence at home.

He was denied parole last year and has spent almost 50 years in federal prison.

Peltier has maintained his innocence in the agents' shooting deaths, which occurred on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

The FBI Agents Association described Peltier as a convicted cop killer responsible for the brutal murders.

Peltier is currently incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary Coleman I in Sumterville, Florida.

Human and Indigenous rights groups, including the National Congress of American Indians, have applauded Biden's actions, calling the case a symbol of systemic injustices faced by Indigenous peoples.

Peltier attended one of the hundreds of US boarding schools funded by the federal government to assimilate Indigenous children into White society in the 19th and 20th centuries.