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By: EFE
Thursday, September 19
Robert F. Kennedy's youngest daughter pleads not to release her father's killer
NEW YORK – Rory Kennedy , the youngest daughter of Senator Robert F. Kennedy , shot to death in 1968, requested this Wednesday that the Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, accused of murdering the politician , do not get parole as you have proposed a panel of the California state parole board.
Rory, the youngest of Robert Kennedy’s eleven children, says in a column opinion published in The New York Times that his mother, Ethel Skakel, and most of his siblings, with the exception of two, supports your position.
The decision to release Sirhan, made by a panel of two, will need to be reviewed by the full parole board in the next 90 days before it is final and, later, California Governor Gavin Newsom will order of 30 days to decide whether to keep the measure, reverts it or returns it to the board.
“The decision to release Mr. Sirhan has yet to be reviewed by the full parole board. and then by the governor of California. I ask you, for my family and, I believe also for our country, to reject this recommendation and keep Sirhan Sirhan in prison ”, concludes Rory , who was still in his mother’s womb when his father passed away.
Sirhan, of 77 years and who is serving a life sentence, has been 54 years in jail, the same years as Rory, born in 1968.
According to Rory, Sirhan cannot be released from prison because “for the United States, the price of life and the truncated ambitions of my father has been incalculable.”
Furthermore, maintains that Sirhan, whom in 1968 his request for freedom was rejected, “he has hardly shown remorse.”
Sirhan complies Life in prison for shooting Kennedy on June 5, 1968, just after he had won the Democratic Party primaries in California that made him a favorite for the presidential elections that same year, in which Republican Richard Nixon won.
According to The Washington Post, which quotes a brother of Sirhan, the panel considered that the prisoner is no longer a threat to society.
“And that impulsive young man that he was no longer exists … Senator Kennedy was the hope of the world and I injured him, and I hurt everyone and it hurts me to experience that”, Sirhan claimed at the hearing, according to the Post.