He will be released after 53 years killer of Robert Kennedy: Sirhan, now seventy-seven, had been sentenced to life imprisonment and spent 53 years in prison. The senator’s two surviving sons, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Douglas Kennedy, had come out in favor of Shiran’s release during his sixteenth probation hearing.
“I am overwhelmed to have been able to see Shiran face to face,” said Douglas Kennedy, “I believe I have lived my life in fear of him and his name, one way or another. And I am grateful. today to see him as a human being deserving of compassion and love. “
John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s younger brother was killed on June 6, 1968 during a presidential campaign that saw him as the favorite. Shortly after midnight, Kennedy gave a speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California Democratic primary.
At the end of the speech, Sirhan ran towards him and shot him with a .22 caliber. A Palestinian Christian refugee, Sirhan had grown hatred of Kennedy for his support for US military aid to Israel.
Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death on April 17, 1969 for the murder of the New York senator but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1972, when the death penalty was abolished in California.
United States, Bob Kennedy killer close to release after 53 years
by Massimo Basile
After a 90-day review period, the California probation commission’s decision, which previously denied the convict’s request 15 times, will be referred to Governor Gavin Newsom, who has the power to reject, amend or postpone it. . The commission has now assessed that Sirhan no longer poses a threat to society.
“It’s been more than half a century and that impulsive young boy that I was no longer exists,” Sirhan said during the last hearing, “Senator Kennedy was the hope of the world and I hurt and I hurt everyone and myself. it pains me to realize it, the conscience of such a horrible act “.
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No Sirhan should serve life in prison.