Posted on 06/13/2008 7:56:28 AM PDT by Lizavetta
CORONA, Calif. (AP) — Former Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins, convicted in the 1969 murder of actress Sharon Tate, could soon be released from prison because she is near death, authorities said.
Atkins, 59, is terminally ill and being considered for so-called "compassionate release," state corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton said. She gave no details of Atkins' illness, but said a doctor had determined she had less than six months to live.
The corrections department was reviewing the request, which if approved would then be passed to the state Board of Parole which has the power to release Atkins under state law so they can die with loved ones, at their expense.
Such releases are relatively rare — only 10 of the 60 requests made last year were granted, Thornton said. The prisoners must have family members willing and able to care for them.
Atkins, now a gray-haired, matronly looking woman, was one of cult leader Manson's ersatz hippie "family" of young killers who burst into a Beverly Hills home 39 years ago and killed Tate, the pregnant wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski, along with four others. The following night they stabbed to death a wealthy couple in their Los Angeles home.
Atkins has been denied parole 11 times, most recently in 2005.
She was housed in the California Institution for Women in Corona for 37 years, but has been in a nearby hospital since March.
She deserves all the compassion she showed her victims.
When a government shows "compassion", it takes away the voluntary choice of the victim and gives up their claim on justice whether they wanted that or not. A "compassionate" government steals individual choice and always shafts somebody in the process.
I understand what you're saying, but I disagree. The fact that Atkins has plead for parole demonstrates that she has not truly accepted responsibility for her actions. She ended lives. Having her freedom taken away for the rest of her life, because of what she did, and not fighting that decision--that would show ownership of her crimes.
He's such a nutjob.
I have always barfed at prisoners being released for "good behavior" = like child molesters - who haven't molested any children since being in prison. (Think about it = it'll catch up to ya)
My point was that Atkins has taken full responsibility for her actions. Something many criminals never do.
This is not about time off for good behavior and its not parole. Its about letting a prisoner who has terminal brain cancer, who is already being moved to a prison with a terminal cancer ward, die at home. Given the totality of the circumstances, I am good with that.
Nutjob? In my book he's no different than the other Dr Death..."Doctor" Mengele.A pure psychopath.
No kidding!
And check out this photo. Like looking into the face of the Devil.
Speaking of holding on...
...have you bothered to examine the entire site?
I find VERY little credibilty with any site that would also link this moonbat tripe:
how Algore really won the 2000 election
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/111201a.html
along with:
Suppressed Details of Criminal Insider Trading lead directly into the CIA`s Highest Ranks
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RUP110A.html
(sigh)here’s yet another collection of “tall Troofer tales”
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/911page.htm
and whilst there don’t forget to purchase a copy of the featured book:
The Hunt for Zero Point : Inside the Classified World of Anti-Gravity Technology via Amazon
and it only gets better from there.
I think you may have found the source for Bush Derangement Syndrome(lots more articles blaming him for 9/11) but Sirhan is screwed royally if he’s depending upon these clowns to procure any sort of release.
And as far as Atkin’s release-please put me down as
not no but HELL NO!
Slap a Fentanyl patch on her sorry murderous butt and throw it back into the slammer-where it belongs!
Truth is, if it wasn't RFK who got shot, just John Q Citizen, and the dead guy didn't have a fat drunk brother as a senator, Sirhan would have been paroled decades ago.
But I am series about the 'alleged' part. Not from that website, that was the first Google hit, but from a series I watched on the History Channel. There's many discrepancies with the gun evidence and number and caliber of shots fired.
I think it was along the lines of “I don’t care about you or your baby, die bitch die” and then proceeded to stab her “until she stopped screaming”. I’m sure her liberal defenders will say that she was young and on acid at the time but she was concious and capable enough to brutally butcher a pregnant woman. Compassionate release does not matter as she is just trying to delay her eternity roasting in Hell. Tough S%it, Beeyotch! Nobody cares if you’re sick!!
Maybe he should pay a visit to Atkins, save the taxpayers a little jingle...but I don't think she deserves an easy time of it.
compassion or pity for the morally guilty victimizer is moral treason toward the innocent victim
Show her the same compassion that she showed Sharon Tate and her unborn child.
Another perfectly good English word screwed up by liberals, bleeding hearts and politicians......like the word "gay".
Leni
“Compassionate Release” Mmmmmmmm Richard Speck died in prison but I guess they didn’t have that “Compassionate Release” option at the time. This just disgusts me.
“Compassionate Release” ? Mmmmmmmmmmmmm Richard Speck died in prison but I guess they didn’t offer this program at the time.
This disgusts me.
Susan Atkins didn’t give Sharon Tate any “compassion” by, say, putting a bullet in her head before cutting open her abdomen and removing her 8.5-month old baby, and then smearing the walls with their blood. She did it while Tate was fully conscious. Atkins is a monster who needs to die in a cold hard jail cell. It is a miscarriage of justice that she was permitted to live this long to begin with.
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