Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan denied parole by California Gov. Gavin Newsom
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected the release of Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan from prison, saying that Sirhan still poses an unreasonable threat to public safety.
"Mr. Sirhan killed Senator Kennedy during a dark season of political assassinations, just nine weeks after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s murder and four and a half years after the murder of Senator Kennedy’s brother, President John F. Kennedy."
A two-person panel of parole commissioners recommended in August that Sirhan be released, noting that he was 24-years-old when he assassinated RFK and is 77-years-old now.
"We think that you have grown," Parole Board Commissioner Robert Barton said at the August hearing, noting that Sirhan had enrolled in anger management classes and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.