Posted on 07/03/2008 2:34:01 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
What “choice” did she give Sharon Tate and the others?
I say let her die at home, not for mercy but because the taxpayers have wasted enough money on her. Let her family pay for her or let her die from lack of care at home.
She should die in prison. Her death sentence was commuted to life in prison. That SHOULD mean that you spend the rest of your life and you die in prison.
die in prison, rot in hell.
Susan Atkins made peace with God about her horrific crimes many decades ago, as she received His forgiveness, and gave her heart to Christ, believing in the death of Jesus on the Cross for her sin (just as each of us must do to stand righteous before God one day at the end of our earthly lives). I don’t have an opinion about whether she should be released to die at home or not. But I DO know about her faith, and that she has impacted many for the Lord over her lifetime.
For those in here who claim the name of Jesus as your Savior, perhaps we should recall the long list of “saints” in Scripture whom God used in powerful ways to completely change the world — and to offer up as examples of the power of His redemption through the blood of Christ for our sin.
Let us remember Moses, who led the people of Israel out of Egypt, and who contributed to the leadership of God’s people in ways that changed all of history. Moses was a murderer, and was “on the run” for decades without ever being brought to earthly justice.
King David, the man whom God Himself called “a man after My own heart” methodically and deliberately had his right hand man murdered just to marry his beautiful, sexy wife, Bathsheba.
A man named Saul (later became the Apostle Paul) tortured and participated in the brutal murders of scores of Christians in the 1st century, just because they dared to follow Christ and name His name as their own. Saul was a mass murderer, and was never executed for his crimes (thank the Lord). He became a godly, faithful leader of the Church Age, and endured unjust imprisonment numerous times himself, along with many other hardships, as he proclaimed Christ to all the known world at that time. Yet he knew he remained “the chief of all sinners”, and he understood his place at the foot of the Cross, where his sin was washed away.
Several of the Manson family members (Charles Watson, and Susan Atkins in particular) have had their lives also changed by the power of Christ through believing on the Lord Jesus through repentence by faith. This God we Christians serve is no respector of persons — He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
Just a wee reminder of how we who are believers need to be so very careful that we speak according to God’s Word in terms of those for which this earth might want to cast away as unredeemable. But for the grace of God, we are THEM.
Very slippery slope and the sliders will be jumping on by the truck load. Bad idea. Mercy has nothing to do with it. She was provided mercy already - she wasn’t executed.
Prison
Yours is a good post, adopt4Christ.
But, if she is truly right with God, then it doesn’t matter where she dies, as far as He is concerned, and it really shouldn’t matter to her, either.
We all sin, and fall far short of the goal. Some of us fall shorter than others, but this doesn’t matter in God’s eye. I say she should stay in prison, to pay for her sin here on earth.
I hope that her family will be able to visit her in her final days here on earth, and that she doesn’t suffer any more than her victims did.
I do trust in Him to make straight our human wrongs, and if we are being cruel to demand that she serve her earthly sentence, then I have faith that He will set it right.
Keep her in prison, as a message to others who might be so deluded as to follow her path.
Prison.
She has been allowed to draw breath for forty years more than her victims.
That’s mercy enough. She deserves no more.
She should stay in prison until she achieves PVS, then remove all life support and feeding apparatus.
thank you. But let me ask you — don’t you think she should be allowed to ASK for mercy by dying at home, since she only has weeks or short months left on earth? What is the harm in giving her the right to ASK?
All she is doing is asking — whether her request is granted or not is up to what God allows.
Prison - with her walls covered by the pictures of those she murdered...
Prison!
No mercy for the unmerciful!
Prison
She should stay right where she is. Her family and friends can experience her death at a distance. The families and friends of her victims had to do it that way, except that their grief was compounded by the horror of the knowledge of the circumstances of their deaths at her hands.
Her family is the Manson family. Her friends are all with her in prison. She has no other home.
She should have died a long time ago. Therefore, in prison would not be justice enough.
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