Sirhan Sirhan’s parole is a story of doubly silly decisions to hollow out the criminal-justice system.
Last Friday, two California parole board commissioners recommended release for Sirhan Sirhan, convicted a half century ago of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy—then a senator and presidential candidate. Two of Kennedy’s eight living children—one of whom, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is a conspiracy theorist who maintains that someone else shot his father—supported the ruling. It also received the tacit endorsement of Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón, the “progressive prosecutor” whose policy is never to send one of his attorneys to parole hearings.
