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...Broomis and the eleven other jurors, the ordeal of Case No. 233421 ended last week. The seven men and five women decreed that Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, killer of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, should be put to death in the gas chamber at San Quentin...
...first-degree verdict and the death sentence showed how little impact the defense had had in trying to prove with psychiatric testimony that Sirhan was incapable of telling right from wrong. It was the uncomplicated, law-and-order approach by the prosecution that convinced the jury. "Sirhan Sir han was entitled to a fair trial," Prosecuting Attorney John Howard told the jurors in arguing against a life sentence. "He has no special claim to further preservation...
...gossip. It started with Jack's rise to the presidency, and his death by an assassin's bullet in Dallas. It became even more tragic as Bobby reached for his brother's mantle, only to be cut down himself. It continued with the agonizing trial and conviction of Sirhan Sirhan, Bobby's assassin. It promises to grow with the senatorial prominence and presidential prospects of Ted Kennedy...
...action is similar to the power of the person who decides to commit suicide. The suicide has the enormous power to take anyone along with him. Murder in the open (and most murders are not secret) is suicide. Assassins are murders too--something we often forger. Sirhan Sirhan merely acted, merely killed Robert Kennedy, probably to kill himself in the most powerful way he could. But the reasons Sirhan killed Kennedy (that he was an Arab and Kennedy liked the Israelis) are reasons we ascribe to Sirhan. We have to have explanations; that is why we cannot admit that Oswald...
Margin for Error. Such cases would raise perplexing professional problems under the most clinical of circumstances. Is an accused criminal presently sick? Psychologists know that batteries of tests, such as the Rorschach and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory used on Sirhan, show only the probability that a man has certain personality traits; they have a built-in margin of error when applied to one individual. Even though experts may agree on the diagnosis of a man's present state, they often have difficulties when pressed to project it back to his condition at the time of the crime. The link...