Gavin Newsom denies parole for RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan. Gavin Newsom has denied parole for Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, a news release from the governor’s office said. I am pragmatic enough to understand that the reason that Sirhan did not get parole is that he’s Sirhan Sirhan and the person he killed was RFK. The state’s Division of Corrections told the newspaper that Bennett was released from prison in 1994 after serving six years of a 10-year prison sentence. The reality is that for people living with convictions (violent or otherwise) this type of stigma occurs regularly.

Source: CNN January 14, 2022 16:03 UTC