Last SLA inmate released from California prison

[Scurrilous]

Source: Associated Press

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"The last captured member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the radical 1970s-era group notorious for bank robberies, killings and the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, was released from prison Sunday, a corrections official said.

James William Kilgore, 61, was paroled from High Desert State Prison after serving a six-year sentence for the murder of housewife Myrna Opsahl during an April 1975 bank robbery.

State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Oscar Hidalgo said parole agents processed Kilgore's release at the Susanville prison.

Kilgore has been granted permission to join his wife in Illinois, where she moved after he was arrested in 2002 in Cape Town, South Africa, after nearly three decades on the run."

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1041506.html

[Vidar]

1. Memories of a very odd episode.

[troubleinwinter]

2. MURDER. 7 years. For MURDER.

[Bluzmann57]

3. You stole my thunder

But you are correct, it is an outrage! First degree murder should be life w/o parole.

[troubleinwinter]

5. Plus 30 years on the lam. Didn't stand up to his crime, but ran.

[Skip Intro]

4. My first thoughts too. nt

[rpannier]

6. My feelings exactly nt

[happyslug]

7. But that was the law AT THE TIME THE MURDER TOOK PLACE, not today

Such short sentences AND Liberal Parole rules ended in the 1980s, after this killing, thus the older rules are what are applicable NOT present law.