Posted on 05/23/2007 7:14:55 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Cult leader Charles Manson was denied parole Wednesday, the 11th time since 1978 that he was ordered to continue serving life sentences for a murderous rampage in Los Angeles County in 1969.
Manson, 72, did not attend or send a representative to the proceeding before the Board of Parole Hearings at Corcoran State Prison.
He previously told a prison counselor that he refuses to participate because he considers himself a "prisoner of the political system," said Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Patrick Sequeira, who attended the hearing.
The board voted to deny Manson parole for five years, the maximum allowed by law. Manson will not be eligible for release again until 2012.
Despite his age, Manson "continues to pose an unreasonable danger to others and may still bring harm to anyone he would come in contact with," the board wrote in its denial.
Manson has had 12 disciplinary violations since his last parole hearing in 2002. He refused to take advantage of rehabilitation programs, and he would not participate in a psychiatric evaluation, Sequeira said.
"He refused to cooperate, so the conclusion they drew from the reports is he still remains a danger to the public," Sequeira said in a telephone interview. "He was convicted of nine horrible murders. He has expressed no remorse or empathy for any of the victims."
Manson initially was sentenced to death for the August 1969 fatal stabbings of five people in the home of actress Sharon Tate and the murders the next day of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Prosecutors said Manson and his followers were trying to incite a race war that he believed was prophesied in the Beatles' song "Helter Skelter."
He also was convicted of the earlier murder of musician Gary Hinman in his Topanga Canyon home, and the slaying of former stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea at the Spahn movie ranch in Chatsworth where Manson had his commune.
His death sentence was changed in 1977 to life in prison with the possibility of parole, the result of a 1972 ruling by the California Supreme Court that found the state's death penalty law at the time unconstitutional.
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And here's another photo of her taken on the day she was murdered... just in case anybody reading this thread has even a little bit of "compassion" for Manson and his murderous gang of low-lifes.
My sister used to live in a commune in Vermont or New Hampsire at the same time Linda Kasabian lived there (State’s Witness Linda Kasabian)
'Right' would be denying him the parole hearings in the first place. This scumbag was sentenced to death before CA outlawed the death penalty. His sentence should have reverted to life without the possibility of parole. The fact that he even gets parole hearings is a miscarriage of justice!
And a waste of taxpayer’s money.
That too!
Maybe he should try writing some childrens novels...no wait that didnt work for Tookie.
That’s what I thought, too - very well preserved. He was ugly when he went in and he’s still the same kind of ugly today. I guess life in prison is pretty good for a creep like that.
Actually, I am surprised that nobody has killed him in prison, because he looks like a raving liberal flake who probably, in addition to being a homicidal maniac, has obsessions about food, clothing, tobacco, etc. That could get irritating.
That’s an old picture. He didn’t show up to this particular hearing.
Here are a few of these animals today -- marrying, divorcing, producing children, setting up recording studios, taking courses and getting degrees, enjoying conjugal visits and time with their "friends"... Tex Watson even became a "minister." Now there's a guy who really plays the game, but even the bleeding heart shrink who evaluates him considers Watson too dangerous to release.
Doesn’t California permit the DP today? I gotta wonder, do they let Mr. Manson watch television, read newspapers, listen to radio or setup a Myspace account? Or has he been essentially in his own psychotic dreamworld since oh, 1960 or so?
Huh? Fathered 4 children? By what perverted reasoning is he entitled to conjugal visits?
I am shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
If they “did it right” they’d have strung up the SOB 38 years ago.
Then-governor Reagan stood up against that judicial usurpation. His Proposition 17 to restore the death penalty in California and override the California Supreme Court passed in November 1972 by a two-to-one margin.
But.... It's called the "Dept of Corrections" for a reason. Punishment would be way too cheap and wouldn't rip off the taxpayer while also keeping thousands off unemployment.
yep, it was a hidden song on their cover album "The spaghetti incident"
Wasn’t Sirhan Sirhan an illegal alien?
I say we petition the government for his release and arrange lodging in Massachusetts.
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