Sirhan Sirhan, the gunman who killed Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, will be not released from prison, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday.
The governor said after an extensive review of Sirhan's case he determined that he still poses a great threat to society.
"Mr. Sirhan’s assassination of Senator Kennedy is among the most notorious crimes in American history," wrote Governor Newsom in his decision. "After decades in prison, he has failed to address the deficiencies that led him to assassinate Senator Kennedy. Mr. Sirhan lacks the insight that would prevent him from making the same types of dangerous decisions he made in the past."in July, but the final decision was in Newsom's hands.
"I would never put myself in jeopardy again," Sirhan said previously to the parole panel. "You have my pledge. I will always look to safety and peace and non-violence." Sirhan shot Kennedy in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Kennedy, a senator from New York at the time and the younger brother of former president John F. Kennedy, had just won California's Democratic presidential primary. Five others were wounded in the violence. Sirhan, a Christian Palestinian, has claimed not to remember the shooting but admitted that he was upset with Kennedy's position on Israel.
Sirhan was convicted in 1969 of first-degree murder and sentenced to death but was commuted to life in prison when California outlawed capital punishment in 1972.
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