Manson follower Leslie Van Houten denied parole

Los Angeles Times ^ | June 29, 2018 | Melissa Etehad

[Lizavetta]

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Friday refused to overturn Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision denying parole to former Charles Manson follower and convicted killer Leslie Van Houten.

In his ruling, Judge William C. Ryan said there was “some evidence” to support Brown’s decision in refusing to release Leslie Van Houten, 68, who in 1971 was found guilty of taking part in the brutal killings of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in Los Angeles.

If released, Ryan found that Van Houten “would pose an unreasonable risk of danger to society.”

Ryan said the brutal and terrorizing manner in which Van Houten and her accomplices killed the LaBiancas demonstrates how the crime was more heinous than most and stands apart from others.

[DPMD]

You’re closing the gap in the wrong direction. Letting everyone out early is reaching down to the lowest common denominator. Keep ‘em all inside.

[mrsmel]

The really heinous and depraved ones (and murder of a child and a pregnant woman qualifies under any honest, civilized standard) should be executed. Dennis Rader should have had his breath taken years ago.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

I like the one that became born again.

Susan Adkins.

Died in prison from cancer. Did not go out easily, and at her last hearing (to be released for the purpose of medical treatment) was not conscious enough to even understand where she was. Stupid decision to keep her in prison. Since she had lost a leg to cancer, she sure as hell wasn't walking off anywhere and was in no condition to harm anyone or anything.

If her conversion was genuine --and no reason to believe otherwise-- she's in a much better place.

[gigster]

Moonbeam actually denied her parole?? Knowing him, he would probably throw her a ticker-tape parade past Polanski's house and give her the keys to the city of L.A..

[gigster]

H*ll, Lynette "Squeaky Fromme" is now walking the streets somewhere after what she did against Gerald Ford.

[bgill]

That little group should have been the poster kids for “Just say No”.

In 1998, Karla Faye Tucker, was the first female to be executed in the state of Texas since 1863. She claimed to have found Jesus and married the prison chaplain. She’d been a druggie since her early teens. At age 24, while high, she and her boyfriend went to another friends’ house to steal his vehicles. Tucker killed the guy and a woman there with a pick ax. She claimed to have had orgasms at each strike of the ax.

She had the Pope and the UN come running to her defense but W. Bush refused to stay the execution. IMO, if she hadn’t been so proud of herself at the trial and told of the orgasms, she probably wouldn’t have received the death penalty. Some things can’t be overlooked even if you do marry the chaplain.

[Pravious]

You’re closing the gap in the wrong direction. Letting everyone out early is reaching down to the lowest common denominator. Keep ‘em all inside.

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That’s fine. I only meant to say they should be consistent and not keep someone in because it’s a “famous” crime when they would otherwise have been freed.