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  • #1

    Poor Sirhan Sirhan

    He comes up for a parole hearing tomorrow.

    Even if the board recommend parole -- which they won't -- the final decision maker would then be Gov. Arnold.

    The scene...Maria comes home to the Govenor's mansion, grabs Arnold by the throat and screams, "You pardoned the @hole who kill my Uncle Bobby?!"

    Ain't gonna happen.
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    Lesson: don't kill well-connected people
    12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
    Stadtluft Macht Frei
    Killing it is the new killing it
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    • #3
      Lesson, stay the course on executions.
      Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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      He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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      • #4
        Was Sirhan2 ever on death row? I thought he got life cuz he was so obviously crazy.
        Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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        • #5
          Originally posted by chegitz guevara
          Was Sirhan2 ever on death row? I thought he got life cuz he was so obviously crazy.
          IIRC, he was. The assassination was in '68. It was '73 when the Supremes overturned all the death sentences.

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          • #6
            Why would they parole this guy?
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            • #7
              He has the automatic appeal. Big whoop. He'll never breathe free air.
              Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
              "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
              He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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              • #8
                They should make him Manson's cell mate.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by chegitz guevara
                  Was Sirhan2 ever on death row? I thought he got life cuz he was so obviously crazy.
                  No death row. Just life in prison but even life in prison cases get perodic reviews by the parole board. The governor has to sign off on them though typically if the parole board says let someone go then the governor just signs the forms. Since the Governor's wife's uncle was the murder victim in this case (and likely would have become the US President if he wasn't killed) it is unlikely Arnie will sign the form even if the board recommends release. It would be interesting to see Sirhan Sirhan released by the Husband of his victim's niece though.
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                  • #10
                    Sirhan Sirhan was, in fact, sentenced to death in 1967. California commuted all death sentences to life imprisonment in 1972, one year prior to the SCOTUS decision to do the same.
                    12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                    Stadtluft Macht Frei
                    Killing it is the new killing it
                    Ultima Ratio Regum

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                    • #11
                      wait, the DP was abolished in the states for some time?
                      urgh.NSFW

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                      • #12
                        Yes. For 3 or 4 years. The SCOTUS found that it was unfair, racially biased and had too high a level of error in it as it was being practiced.

                        What must then have happened was that some state (prolly Texas) rewrote its death penalty law and brought a case to the SCOTUS again. The SCOTUS then found that the new law had enough safeguards in it to prevent the abuses it had seen earlier, so it allowed that law to stand. Other states then did the same.
                        12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                        Stadtluft Macht Frei
                        Killing it is the new killing it
                        Ultima Ratio Regum

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                        • #13
                          More info RE: the SCOTUS decision if you're interested:

                          DPIC
                          http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=15&did=410#SuspendingtheDeathPenalty
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                          • #14
                            Sirhan's family seems to be filled with nutty murders. He's Palestinian and supposedly his nephew blew himself up in order to kill some random Jews on the street. Bunch of idiots.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Stuie
                              More info RE: the SCOTUS decision if you're interested:

                              http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/arti...heDeathPenalty
                              ah yes, Gary Gilmore, id forgotten about him. The first DP application in ten years.
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