Do we just let Sirhan Sirhan go? (via latimesopinion)
Sirhan Sirhan comes before a state parole board on Friday for the 16th time, raising the obvious question for the rest of us — should the convicted assassin of Robert F. Kennedy be released? And if not, why even bother with parole hearings?
One of my editors brought the question to me, believing, I’m sure, because of my positions in favor of reform and against sentencing excess, that I’d want us to editorialize in favor of her release. I think he, and probably most of my colleagues, were taken aback by my hard line against it. Several years ago I wrote that the time was not right to release another Manson family member, Leslie Van Houten. It apparently was an easy call for those who wrote in and said, “No, never,” and also for those who said, “For heaven’s sake, she’s done her time.” But it wasn’t an easy call for me.
Over the next several years I saw photos of the young Manson women at trial wearing outfits and hairstyles that made them look like they could have been my older sister’s friends.
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