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"Remember Susan Atkins famously told a sobbing and begging Sharon Tate prior to her murder and mutilation, “Look bitch, I have no mercy for you.”
Posted on 06/05/2009 10:21:50 PM PDT by Steelfish
Manson follower Susan Atkins, with six months to live, granted parole hearing
June 5, 2009
Last year, doctors diagnosed Susan Atkins with terminal cancer, prompting a failed bid by the convicted murderer and Charles Manson follower to receive a "compassionate release" from state prison.
But Atkins, who gained infamy for her role in the 1969 slayings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and others in a bloody two-night rampage in Los Angeles, may get one last chance to convince state parole officials she should no longer be kept behind bars.
Officials with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Thursday they have scheduled a Sept. 2 parole hearing for Atkins in Los Angeles.
Atkins has served 38 years in prison, longer than any other female prisoner, officials said. Before last year's attempt, she was most recently considered for, and denied, parole in 2000.
In early 2008 Atkins was diagnosed with brain cancer. With one leg amputated and the other paralyzed, Atkins has only six months to live, doctors say. Atkins petitioned for so-called compassionate release, igniting a debate about when mercy is appropriate.
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No compassion, no mercy-— do you think ayers is helping?
And this just in.... Sharon Tate, dead for thirty years along with the baby that was carved out of her stomach, both turned down for their first parole hearing.
So if Christians don't demand her release, they are as bad as Manson and his murderers?
And according to Playboy, Liberals now support terror-raping conservative women.
Things are getting very, very clear. Thanks for posting, you've done far more than you realize.
Well. and where was the mercy for the people she helped murder? She is lucky she was not hanged 38 years ago.
“We incarcerate people for two reason. ‘
I say there is a third reason: Justice. People need justice.
Well said.
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"Remember Susan Atkins famously told a sobbing and begging Sharon Tate prior to her murder and mutilation, “Look bitch, I have no mercy for you.”
She murdered a person and a pregnant one at that. She should die in prison.
Imagine Sharon Tate today, at around 70, driving over to her daughter’s home to bring some presents to her three little grandchildren.
Whoops. You can’t. Because Sharon and her unborn child (daughter or son, who knew) DIED 38 years ago at the hands of this monster who wanted to torture and kill both of them. The grandchildren never even got to be.
Why, I bet they amputated Susan’s leg with ANESTHETICS. Something Susan forgot to think about when she stabbed Sharon over and over.
Compassion? It’s a little late for compassion.
It was a little boy. Richard Paul, I think. I can’t even fathom the terror Sharon Tate must have felt. As a society, we have the obligation to put a value on innocent human life. The State of CA placed a value on Atkins life when they overturned the death penalty. But I think she should serve her sentence to pay society-and the families- for the life she took from her victims.
It is still painful to many people, all over, what happened in my city that night. I was a little girl and did not know about it until years later when I read Bugliosi’s “Helter Skelter.” Oh my gosh, we used to drive by the old house on Cielo Drive late at night and freak ourselves out. It looked, then, when I was in my teens, exactly as it did the night of the murders. (They changed the house and the whole street around; nothing looks the same there any more today.)
No way should these killers be shown any more mercy than what they got when their sentence of death was overturned. None of the victims’ death sentences have been.
Nice to meet someone else who gets it.
Her execution date was years ago
We’ve kept her locked up for 38 years, another 6 months won’t hurt. Approve her parole after she’s dead.
Californika could cut back on their prison costs by just executing all their death row inmates and several thousand murderers...Cost cutting 101, hey Arnold!
Awwwwww. I watched the documentary about Roman Polanski the other day online and even if I don’t have sympathy for him about the 13-year-old girl case, I must admit my heart went straight out to him when they showed him returning from Europe when his beloved wife and longed-for child had just been murdered. The expression on his face was one I hope never to see again on anybody.
Yeah, I saw that documentary as well. Although he is one strange duck, the tragedy of losing his wife and son was heartbreaking. One of the big “if only”-if only she staying in Europe...
But again, Atkins has been shown compassion. I have heard that she is a Christian, and it is my hope that is true. She will be washed of her sins by the blood of Christ. She should also finish her sentence. I personally don’t think a lifetime is enough for what she did.
That's what it means to serve "life".
Well said. Society has been merciful in allowing Adkins to live and contemplate her actions. Hopefully, she has used that time well, but it is not without our power to forgive the murders she committed. Adkins victims are not here to speak for themselves, so it is our obligation to see that the full life sentence is served.
TaraP ,
Forgiveness is for GOD, not humans.
This person along with many others invaded homes and murdered innocents. One was Sharon Tate whose unborn baby was cut out of her belly and Sharon was killed along with many other innocents all to try to start a “race war”.
This is just evil pure and simple.
Were this nearly any other state than Calif. Atkins, Manson and the others all would have been in hell by now and should have been.
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