[muir_redwoods]

I thought this is what a life sentence is supposed to mean. If death penalty opponents are at all honest, they should be rallying to keep her in jail until she's dead.

That's what it means to serve "life".

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Let her die in her cell and bury her bones there.

[linn37]

Give her the same mercy that she showed her victim.

[freeangel]

Grant her the mercy she granted Sharon Stone and her child.

[rigelkentaurus]

if this murderer wants out of prison so bad, I would give her a nice, stout, long rope. If she can figure out how to use it on herself, then that is her early release from prison. Otherwise, she can lay there an rot. If she has made peace with God, great, and it won't hurt a thing to sit and wait the next few months right where she is.

[monocle]

If she is truly in the final stages, her release could probabaly be less humane given her physical and financial straits which the state now foots the bill. Her only relief would be emotional.

[RichInOC]

“Hi, I’m Norman Bates, for the Norman Bates School of Criminal Justice, and I say...

“Hack her to death with a kitchen knife.”

[jmaroneps37]

Move her out. I’m sure Arnold can find some very young very dangerous bit%h who can fit nicely into her cell. If they weren’t going to execute her this is the next best thing. Her life was poured down a sewer because she was soooooooooo much smarter than everyone else. Now her life is over. Give her a chance to repent reflect and maybe even possibly serve as an example to the next oh sooooo smart young person.

[Malesherbes]

I have no compassion for Susan Atkins. Jail is her lifelong home and is where she should stay. I’m only disgusted by the whole Haight-Ashbury culture which centered in San Francisco but which infected the worst part of a generation.

[mass55th]

She’s still alive? I thought they said she was dying over a year ago and wanted to be released. I hope she rots in prison.

[jhroberts]

FTA - “Atkins petitioned for so-called compassionate release” My suggestion to the Parole Board is to show Atkins the same level of compassion she gave to her victims. She should die a prolonged and intensely painful death in prison.

[Amerigomag]

What strikes me when reading this article is that it still not too late to execute Ms. Atkins.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I can only say that NO ONE really KNOWS they have “six months to live”. All she knows that she is alive today and that she has this that or the other medical condition.

She might not make it until tomorrow or she might be alive five years from now.

So the whole premise of the article, and by extension, the hearing, is flawed.

[BunnySlippers]

A year ago they said she had 6 months.