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Manson Follower Susan Atkins, With Six Months To Live, Granted Parole Hearing
LA Now ^ | June 05, 2009

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: manson; mansonfamily; parole; sharontate; susanatkins
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To: Robwin
I wonder where she would go after all these years.

My answer is straight to Hell!

41 posted on 06/06/2009 3:11:51 AM PDT by jws3sticks (Zer0 and Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime, and the sooner the better!)
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To: Steelfish

Let her die in her cell and bury her bones there.


42 posted on 06/06/2009 3:26:32 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: Robwin

She’s married to a lawyer.


43 posted on 06/06/2009 3:27:20 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: Steelfish

Give her the same mercy that she showed her victim.


44 posted on 06/06/2009 3:31:02 AM PDT by linn37 (cue the circus music the democrats are back in charge)
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To: linn37
Give her the same mercy that she showed her victim.

"Ye have heard it said....but I say unto ye...."

45 posted on 06/06/2009 3:34:12 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Private FC- 1/16/09 - Parris Island, SC - Lnc Crprl -6/4/09 - 29 Palms, CA)
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To: Steelfish

Grant her the mercy she granted Sharon Stone and her child.


46 posted on 06/06/2009 4:10:50 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: freeangel

Actually, the life sentence rather than the death penalty was mercy.


47 posted on 06/06/2009 4:23:06 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Private FC- 1/16/09 - Parris Island, SC - Lnc Crprl -6/4/09 - 29 Palms, CA)
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To: Steelfish
if this murderer wants out of prison so bad, I would give her a nice, stout, long rope. If she can figure out how to use it on herself, then that is her early release from prison. Otherwise, she can lay there an rot. If she has made peace with God, great, and it won't hurt a thing to sit and wait the next few months right where she is.
48 posted on 06/06/2009 4:26:26 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Steelfish

If she is truly in the final stages, her release could probabaly be less humane given her physical and financial straits which the state now foots the bill. Her only relief would be emotional.


49 posted on 06/06/2009 4:36:59 AM PDT by monocle
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To: Steelfish
“Hi, I’m Norman Bates, for the Norman Bates School of Criminal Justice, and I say...

“Hack her to death with a kitchen knife.”

50 posted on 06/06/2009 4:48:06 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: wendy1946

If they need the space, she could share her bunk or give her the needle.


51 posted on 06/06/2009 5:12:17 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: Daaave
"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.”

Worth repeating....

52 posted on 06/06/2009 5:14:21 AM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: jokyfo

The only notable thing my sister said about her was that she seemed to be more normal than anyone else in their group.

I never went to visit her up there, they weren’t exactly my type of people. They were a bunch of druggies and hippies squatting on someone’s land with no running water and no electricity.

I had just spent four years in the Navy...


53 posted on 06/06/2009 5:21:53 AM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: TaraP

Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto to God that which is God’s.

Right now she is rendering unto Caesar. God gets her when we are done.


54 posted on 06/06/2009 5:22:30 AM PDT by dpa5923 (Small minds talk about people, normal minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas.)
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To: Steelfish

Move her out. I’m sure Arnold can find some very young very dangerous bit%h who can fit nicely into her cell. If they weren’t going to execute her this is the next best thing. Her life was poured down a sewer because she was soooooooooo much smarter than everyone else. Now her life is over. Give her a chance to repent reflect and maybe even possibly serve as an example to the next oh sooooo smart young person.


55 posted on 06/06/2009 5:59:10 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Steelfish

I have no compassion for Susan Atkins. Jail is her lifelong home and is where she should stay. I’m only disgusted by the whole Haight-Ashbury culture which centered in San Francisco but which infected the worst part of a generation.


56 posted on 06/06/2009 6:03:15 AM PDT by Malesherbes (Sauve Qui Peut)
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To: Joe Boucher

I find this to be a difficult issue. I understand and agree with the teachings of Christ on forgiveness. At a personal level we are taught to forgive those “who trespass against us.” In this case Atkins didn’t “trespass” against me, so I am not sure I have the right to forgive her. Only God can forgive her, because her sin was against Him.

However, it is interesting to hear “Christian” arguments from liberals when the issue is about justice and our governmental court system. Little is made of so-called “separation of church and state” in those instances. Funny how that works.


57 posted on 06/06/2009 6:49:57 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: TaraP

So if forgiveness is inevitable, why be good in the first place? Those who show mercy to the cruel will be cruel to the merciful.


58 posted on 06/06/2009 6:59:12 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: NCLaw441

I have heard of a few of Mansons followers who have become Christians and have been model inmates. Others not so much like Manson.
Not for me but as you say GOD to forgive or not.
My big questions are whether to cut the grass or go sailing.
Our founding fathers were quite religious and while not wanting a state religion did not want religion out. Just liberal nonsense.


59 posted on 06/06/2009 7:58:51 AM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: Steelfish

She’s still alive? I thought they said she was dying over a year ago and wanted to be released. I hope she rots in prison.


60 posted on 06/06/2009 8:47:05 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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