In particular, Sirhan Sirhan, 77 years old, was still “a threat to public safety” and that he refused “to accept his responsibility in this crime”.
The Governor of California rejected, Thursday, January 13, the parole of Sirhan Sirhan, the murderer of Robert Kennedy in 1968, to which a specialized commission had given his downstream last summer.
In particular, the Governor Gavin Newsom estimated that the 77-year-old detainee, was still “a threat to public safety” and that he refused “to accept his responsibility in this crime”, reports a statement of his services.
Sirhan Sirhan, 77 years old today, had been found guilty on April 17, 1969 from the murder of Senator of New York, brother Cadet de John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He had been sentenced to death, but his sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment in 1972, thanks to a brief removal of the capital punishment in California.
In August last August, the California Parole Board had finally agreed for its exit from Sirhan Sirhan prison after refusing for fifteen times. This decision then had to be submitted to the governor who had the power to refuse or modify it.
“Mr. Sirhan does not have the lucidity necessary”
“The assassination of Senator Kennedy by Mr. Sirhan is one of the best-known crimes in American history,” wrote the Governor Newsom in the statement. “After decades spent in prison, he still has not corrected the defects that led him to murder Senator Kennedy. Mr. Sirhan does not have the lucidity necessary to prevent him from taking the same dangerous decisions as by The past “, he continues.
Palestinian immigrant, Sirhan Sirhan had murdered “Bobby” Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, while the senator was campaigning to win the democratic investment for the presidential election. Five other people had been injured. The murderer had at the time justified his gesture through the support brought by Robert Kennedy for the sale of military aircraft in Israel.
During his previous parole request in 2016, Mr. Sirhan had said he had drunk too much on the evening of the crime and that he would have liked “that nothing happened”. He had also assured that the confession during his trial were the fact of a lawyer who had misguided him and convinced him that he was guilty.