Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who has always maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents 50 years ago, was released from a federal prison Tuesday after former President Joe Biden commuted his two life sentences. Peltier, who is 80 and has been in declining health for years, will serve his remaining days in home confinement on a reservation in North Dakota.

His release “gives him a chance at a life, at a humane existence, and the ability to more acutely engage with his culture, with his religious practices and with his sacred practices,” said Jenipher Jones, the lead lawyer in his case.