The U.S. Parole Commission denied Leonard Peltier parole on July 2, 2024, following a June 10 hearing at the federal prison in Coleman, Florida.
Peltier was serving two life sentences for the 1975 killings of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams at Pine Ridge. He has maintained his innocence, and Indigenous organizations and human-rights advocates have long sought his release.
An interim review was scheduled for 2026, with the next full reconsideration in 2039. Those were different stages of the parole process, rather than a correction that moved a single hearing from one year to the other.
NDN Collective condemned the denial and continued to press the Biden administration for clemency. Peltier’s age, health and decades in custody were central to that campaign.
