Charles Manson was denied parole Wednesday May 23, 2007, the 11th time since 1978 that the cult leader was ordered to continue serving life sentences for a murderous rampage in 1969. (AP-Photo)
Posted on 05/23/2007 7:14:55 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Cult leader Charles Manson was denied parole Wednesday, the 11th time since 1978 that he was ordered to continue serving life sentences for a murderous rampage in Los Angeles County in 1969.
Manson, 72, did not attend or send a representative to the proceeding before the Board of Parole Hearings at Corcoran State Prison.
He previously told a prison counselor that he refuses to participate because he considers himself a "prisoner of the political system," said Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Patrick Sequeira, who attended the hearing.
The board voted to deny Manson parole for five years, the maximum allowed by law. Manson will not be eligible for release again until 2012.
Despite his age, Manson "continues to pose an unreasonable danger to others and may still bring harm to anyone he would come in contact with," the board wrote in its denial.
Manson has had 12 disciplinary violations since his last parole hearing in 2002. He refused to take advantage of rehabilitation programs, and he would not participate in a psychiatric evaluation, Sequeira said.
"He refused to cooperate, so the conclusion they drew from the reports is he still remains a danger to the public," Sequeira said in a telephone interview. "He was convicted of nine horrible murders. He has expressed no remorse or empathy for any of the victims."
Manson initially was sentenced to death for the August 1969 fatal stabbings of five people in the home of actress Sharon Tate and the murders the next day of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Prosecutors said Manson and his followers were trying to incite a race war that he believed was prophesied in the Beatles' song "Helter Skelter."
He also was convicted of the earlier murder of musician Gary Hinman in his Topanga Canyon home, and the slaying of former stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea at the Spahn movie ranch in Chatsworth where Manson had his commune.
His death sentence was changed in 1977 to life in prison with the possibility of parole, the result of a 1972 ruling by the California Supreme Court that found the state's death penalty law at the time unconstitutional.
Charles Manson was denied parole Wednesday May 23, 2007, the 11th time since 1978 that the cult leader was ordered to continue serving life sentences for a murderous rampage in 1969. (AP-Photo)
California does something right.
Unbelievable. He looks exactly the same- only older.
I think we should parole him and everyone else like him and put them all on a boat and dump them on the shores of Iran. They should fit in well there.
He will die in prison. Thankfully.
Still a monster.
He does look like Imanutjob’s grandfather.
No one should be surprised. He will never get out.
Charles Manson is extremely dangerous. In spite of his illiterate hobo act, he still had the ability to persuade college-educated young people with no history of violence to commit mass murder. He still is able to spot gullible people and get them to do his bidding.
Charlie is 72.
Wow, makes me feel old.
I recall back in 1991 or 92 Charlie went before the Parole Board and he ranted about how all the judge’s, DA’s and Parole Board members daughters worked as prostitutes. He then stopped and said “I got to take a $%!t and left to room for ten minutes.
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Did Guns & Roses record a song by him
I think it was one of their last album that album that best known of their version Since I don’t have you by Skyliners
That pic is an old pic,, I was looking for a recent photo that could be verified. Sadly, he should have been well on his way to skeletal remains by now.
No Thanks to the Supremes.
Whether he poses a danger is not relevant. Punishment, not rehabilitation is the key word here. Simple as that.
He is the same. If he makes it to 82 and 92 and 102, he'll be the same then.
I'll give him this much -- he's utterly consistent, never changes his outlook even a little. A lot of these killers take the counseling, toe the line in prison and say they're sorry for what they've done -- so they get parole and get to kill again.
But not Manson. He'd rather stay behind bars than give the parole board the satisfaction of seeing him jump through their meaningless little hoops. He's despicable, but I've got to give him a small measure of respect for at least telling the PB to shove their silly games.
I don't know about the daughters, but the parents are definitely prostituting themselves.
take him out and hang him
I remember listening to Manson’s hilarious rants, thinking “No person with half a brain could believe that this is anything but sideshow mumbo-jumbo.” His pontifications were the stuff of high comedy: nothing but a meandering series of cliches and ambiguities strung together with scoffs and laced liberally with pseudo-religious or -psychological babble. They were more energized versions of the crap Jesse Jackson and Cornell West spout — nothing but word salad with a tang of danger.
THIS IS A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE!! THE DEMOCRAT PARTY NEEDS THEIR VOTING BASE!
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