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Peltier to get full parole hearing
Across the country, supporters of American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, imprisoned for 33 years for shooting two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, are calling for a global outcry for his release during his upcoming parole hearing.
On July 28, the U.S. Parole Commission in Lewisburg, Penn., will review his case while supporters stand in vigil outside the federal prison.
Peltier, now in his 60s, was convicted in 1977 and sentenced to two consecutive life terms for the murder of Special Agents Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams, killed in a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
Debate has continued since then over Peltier's guilt and the fairness of his trial. Supporters consider him a political prisoner and a symbol of how the government deals with Indigenous people.