US indigenous activist Peltier in bid for parole
UNITED STATES indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, was set to appear at a parole hearing today at a federal prison in Florida.
At 79, his health is failing, and if this parole request is denied, it might be a decade or more before it is considered again, said his attorney Kevin Sharp, a former federal judge.
Mr Sharp and other supporters have long argued that Mr Peltier was wrongly convicted and say now that this effort may be his last chance at freedom.
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