Posted on 04/23/2021 7:14:31 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was condemned to the California gas chamber for assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
The aggrieved Palestinian was not marked by fate to suffer that last extremity of the law, however; instead, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment when all existing death penalty statutes were invalidated in 1972.*
As a result, Sirhan Sirhan remains alive as of this writing, serving that sentence in the Golden State’s Pleasant Valley State Prison. He’ll be next up for parole in 2011.
(In a parole appeal back in 1982 — he’s been on a bit of a losing streak — the convicted assassin had the chutzpah to complain that “if Robert Kennedy were alive today, I believe he would not countenance singling me out for this kind of treatment.”)
Although the guy was seen in a crowded room pulling the trigger (onlookers tackled him) and he subsequently confessed to the deed, there has long been a conspiratorial counternarrative suggesting that other shooters were there, too. It’s pretty hard to say that the guy who emptied his chamber in front of dozens of witnesses wasn’t involved, but there are versions of this where he’s a Manchurian Candidate-style hypnotized patsy.....
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>> It’s pretty hard to say that the guy who emptied his chamber in front of dozens of witnesses wasn’t involved, but there are versions of this where he’s a Manchurian Candidate-style hypnotized patsy.
The man who directed All The President’s Men made just such a movie about it (as part of his conspiracy theory TRILOGY).
The Parallax View - Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP7SSmRtArc
“Pleasant Valley” state prison. Is that a cruel joke or what. Sounds like the whole state of Mexifornia or Michigan.
Charcoal burning everywhere
“Sirhan Sirhan remains alive as of this writing,”
Hell, so does Maj. Hasan who killed 32 soldiers. WHY????
Buck Compton, of ‘Band of Brothers’ fame, was the lead prosecutor in the Sirhan Sirhan case.
The judge at Charles Manson's trial had served as a pilot with the Flying Tigers, and had been appointed to the bench by then CA Governor Ronald Reagan.
This article is 11 years old. Sirhan is now at the Otay Mesa prison on the Mexican border.
Trump should have pardoned him on the 50th anniversary of Chappaquiddik. RFK Jr. would have approved.
Maybe he just wanted to commit suicide by cop?
Arab terrorist privilege.
So how old is he now and when’s his next parole board date?
“So how old is he now and when’s his next parole board date?”
Parole hearing? It probably was last week. The Biden team needed him to work with Mumia-Abul-Jamal on the police reform and defund the police efforts.
Ah, well that makes sense; maybe sit on the CAIR council to help reconcile the US with 9/11 because some people did something.
Shouldn’t Sirhan Sirhan be at the ‘not executed today (or ever).com website rather than the one linked?
Why has he not been released? The democrats have released hundreds of murderers just this past year!
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