President Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving life in prison

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

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