Posted on 06/13/2008 2:24:29 PM PDT by Baladas
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Former Manson family member Susan Atkins has requested a "compassionate release" from prison because she has less than six months to live, a California prisons spokeswoman said Friday.
Susan Atkins, Califorina's longest-serving female inmate, is shown in her most recent mug shot.
1 of 2 Atkins, 60, was convicted in the 1969 slayings of actress Sharon Tate and four others. She had been incarcerated at the California Institution for Women in Corona, California.
But Atkins, the state's longest- serving female inmate, has been hospitalized since March 18 and is listed in serious condition, state corrections department spokeswoman Terry Thornton said. Because of privacy laws, Thornton would not disclose the nature of Atkins' illness.
Atkins' husband and attorney, James Whitehouse, was quoted as saying she has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, according to a blog called Manson Family Today. She also has had a leg amputated, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday, citing sources close to the case.
The compassionate release request has been approved by the prison, which conducted an evaluation, and is under corrections department review, Thornton said.
If the department approves, the Board of Parole Hearings and the sentencing court in Los Angeles also must sign off on the request. There is no timeline for a decision to be made, Thornton said.
Atkins, known within the Manson family as "Sadie Mae Glutz," has been in prison since 1971 and has been denied parole 11 times.
According to historical accounts of the murders, Atkins stabbed Tate, who was 8½ months pregnant, and scawled the word "pig" in blood on the door of the home the actress shared with director Roman Polanski.
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a “compassionate release”
how about a bullet to her brain.
Why? What has she done to deserve compassion? Her crime was horrible, as far as I know she has never repented. Just this year they were digging around on the Manson ranch looking for more bodies. Has she come clean about everything else she knows.
Absent some compelling reason I say let her die in jail.
Adios MF.
crime AND punishment. Lucky you didnt do it in va. but with kaine who knows.
The cost of treating her must be enormous.
RIP Sharon Tate - and her mom.
Her eyes still have that demented look that I remember from photos back during the trial.
I wonder if she has ever had any remorse.
If they let her out she’ll just go on Medicare and the cost will be at least as much.
The words “compassionate” and “Susan Atkins” should never be used in the same sentence.
What happens if then bitch doesn’t die in 6 months? Does she go back to prison?
I hope she rots in hell.
They should have strung her up at the time, but at this point I don’t see why they shouldn’t let her out.
Did anyone notice “Califorina” in the story?? Anyway... Now I can finish reading. :)
Considering she received the death penalty, this shouldn’t even be an issue, but thanks to SCOTUS, the @#$#@ got life instead.
Thank God Doris Tate (blessed lady) did not live to see this, and Lord help the Bureau of Prisons if they tried to do this whilst she lived.
What does anyone bet me that Atkins will be all over the talk shows telling her story and raking in $$$? And those vipers will book her, too. I’m sure Letterman would fly her first class.
Don’t we always get back what we give? She will be getting back exactly what she gave....hopefully.
Didn't they let out Kervorkian because he was dying? Then the next thing you know, he's running for Congress.
So since when did people in prison have a right to privacy? Convicts shouldn’t have that right.
I’ll bet the reason the bitch has that bang hanging down is to cover up a swastika scar. Remember when the manson bunch showed up in court with the swastikas cut into their foreheads?
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