Native American activist Leonard Peltier gets first parole hearing in 15 years

[AndersonsBiographer]

https://www.reuters.com/world/nativ...ets-parole-hearing-first-15-years-2024-06-10/

June 10 (Reuters) - Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who has served nearly 50 years in prison for the killing of two FBI agents, was scheduled to have his first parole hearing since 2009 on Monday, his lawyer said.

Peltier, 79, has maintained that he did not kill FBI special agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Advocates, including figures such as the late Nelson Mandela and a former prosecutor and judge involved in his case, have long said he should be freed because of what they call legal irregularities in his trial.

Honestly, I would support his release even if I did think he played a role in bumping off those pigs. There have been previous First Nations Rebellions where the participants were ultimately pardoned.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

About Allah damned time!!! No, well past time.


The pigs should get it for torturing his horse, and it should hurt.


A lot. And for a long time . . . .