Posted on 09/02/2009 10:38:17 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Susan Atkins, a follower of mass killer Charles Manson convicted nearly four decades ago in some of the most notorious murders in U.S. history, lost her 18th bid for release on Wednesday.
Atkins -- terminally ill with brain cancer and, according to her attorney, paralyzed over much of her body -- was denied her freedom by the California Parole Board after a hearing at the prison where she is being held.
Now 61, Atkins was convicted in 1971 of taking part in seven "Manson Family" murders, including that of heavily pregnant actress Sharon Tate, the wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski.
Her death sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972, when the California Supreme Court abolished capital punishment. Atkins will next be eligible for parole in 2012.
Manson became one of the 20th Century's most infamous criminals during the summer of 1969, when the Beatles-obsessed ex-convict directed his mostly young, female followers to murder seven people.
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This "lady" had not served her time.
Her sentence was "life"...and that is what she will get.
The God I know..is a God of His Word. And a God of laws.
I would rather pray that she is saved and knows the Lord.
When she croaks they can feed her corpse to the hogs. But it would probably make them ill.
Good.
A Life Sentence should mean “LIFE.”
I hope she makes he peace with God and may He have mercy on her soul.
Even if we forgive her, it doesn’t she gets out of prison.
Life means (or should mean) LIFE. You die in prison. This is right and appropriate. I don’t seen any problems with it.
I was 20 something when she killed Tate.
They did not grant life, they merely commuted it to life in prison, which means that my statement stands as is.
4 U kids who don’t understand the Law
lol..ok u are right....dad.
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