Where is Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Francis Kennedy's assassin now? Is he still alive?

zbeckabee

Sirhan has been routinely eligible for parole, but as of 2006 parole had been denied 13 times. Currently he is confined at the California State Prison in Corcoran. Sirhan's attorney Lawrence Teeter died on July 31, 2005, in Mexico. Sirhan was again refused parole on March 15, 2006. He did not attend the hearing nor did he appoint a new attorney to represent him. His next possible chance for parole will be in 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirhan_Sirhan Dec 11 06, 2:44 PM

skysmom65

After a 1969 trial lasting nearly four months, Sirhan was convicted and sentenced to death. That sentence was commuted to life in prison and Sirhan has been in prison in California ever since; his repeated applications for parole have been denied. http://www.answers.com/Sirhan%20Sirhan Dec 11 06, 2:45 PM

lilacmay4

Zbeckabee, why does the state of California continue to deny Sirhan Sirhan his parole even though he is eligible for it? I do not understand this whole picture here! The state of California should now execute Sirhan Sirhan because he committed a serious crime for presidential candidate Robert Francis Kennedy in the Ambassador Hotel's kitchen on June 5, 1968. Dec 11 06, 2:57 PM

zbeckabee

Sirhan was convicted and sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972 after the California Supreme Court in its People v. Anderson decision resulted in the invalidation of all pending death sentences imposed in California prior to 1972. Dec 11 06, 3:01 PM

zbeckabee

lilacmay4--What this means is that his sentence was changed from death to life in prison. He's like Charles Manson...he'll never be released because of nature of the crime(s). Dec 11 06, 3:04 PM

SOTHC

I for one do not believe he was guilty of the crime and was set up to be the fall guy. Dec 11 06, 3:47 PM

lilacmay4

Zbeckabee, you are right! Sirhan Sirhan is like Charles Manson because the state of California will never release him from prison due to the assassination on Robert Francis Kennedy in 1968. Dec 11 06, 6:36 PM

star_gazer

Sirhan Sirhan claims that he remembers nothing from the night that he shot Robert Kennedy, and there are some crime experts who believe that he might have been hypnotized into killing Robert Kennedy against his own will. http://history1900s.about.com/b/a/142925.htm Dec 11 06, 8:06 PM

lanfranco

Well, lilac, either you want Sirhan to be paroled, or you want him to be executed. You can't have it both ways. Eligibility for parole is merely a matter of how long someone has served time in prison -- it is not a guarantee that he or she will be granted parole. Several factors are involved, and notoriety of the crime is, indeed, one of them. As I recall, members of the Kennedy family expressed their preference that Sirhan would not receive the death penalty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parole Dec 11 06, 8:41 PM