FOX 11 has confirmed, as expected, convicted killer Sirhan Sirhan's parole will be denied, after review by Governor Gavin Newsom, with the official announcement from the governor's office expected around 2 p.m. Thursday.
referring to RFK as his political hero, rejected a recommendation from a two-person panel of parole commissioners. The governor said Sirhan, now 77, poses an unreasonable threat to public safety and that his crimes "caused great harm to the American people."wrote in the nine-page document about his decision"Mr. Sirhan’s assassination of Senator Kennedy is among the most notorious crimes in American history," Newsom.
Newsom added that factors in his decision include Sirhan's "current refusal to accept responsibility for his crimes," his lack of insight and the accountability required to support his safe release, his failure to disclaim violence committed in his name, and his failure to mitigate his risk factors. "Kennedy’s family bears his loss every day," Newsom wrote. "Millions of Americans lost a unifier in a time of national turmoil and grief, just nine weeks after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and four-and-a-half years after the murder of Kennedy’s brother, President John F. Kennedy."
Sirhan was convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. He was initially sentenced to the death penalty in 1969. However, in 1972, Sirhan's sentence was commuted to life in prison after California abolished the death penalty.
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