California's director of adult prisons is recommending against "compassionate release" for a terminally ill former Manson family member, a spokeswoman said.
Suzan Hubbard, director of the Division of Adult Institutions, decided that Susan Atkins' request should not be sent to the sentencing court for consideration, said Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Hubbard's recommendation is advisory and will not necessarily prevent Atkins' release.
While I can’t argue that the Mrs. Hubbard is wrong, I certainly would hope that the director would have a good portion of say in such matters.
But let’s take a look at Susan Atkins’ crime. She stabbed to death an 8 month pregnant woman. When the woman, Sharon Tate, BEGGED for her life and the life of her baby, she was told “I don’t care about you or your baby” and slit her throat.
But let’s not dwell on that shall we? Let’s whitewash her crime like CNN does:
Atkins is a born-again Christian, according to a Web site maintained by her husband. During her incarceration, the site says, Atkins has worked to help at-risk youth, victims of violent crimes and homeless children.
Unless she cures cancer, AIDS, or tells me where Bin Laden is, she can rot in jail forever.
Atkins, like family leader Charles Manson, received a death sentence. Her punishment was changed to life in prison when the California Supreme Court ruled the state's death penalty unconstitutional in 1972.
Life in prison means LIFE IN PRISON. If California hadn’t had had its momentary lapse in judgement, you’d be DEAD and buried long ago Susan.
Travis
She is where she belongs, let her stay in prison.
ReplyDeleteOur laws are in place to punish for what you have done, not reward for what you believed will make amends. In Ms. Atkins own words she had "no mercy for you b#*ch". She didnt steal a candy bar from a store she commited seven brutal murders. Check the crime scene photos, review the case transcripts. Think!! What compassion did she show the victims when she killed them? What compassion did she show the victims families during the trials, laughing and taunting them? By not granting her release you will also show that there is always a price to pay. Maybe just maybe here death in prison will cause one person to think before they kill another.
ReplyDeleteExactly. For her to taste freedom when she was condemned to die is incomprehensible. If she's going to be anything, generationjones has it right, maybe she should just be an example to others.
ReplyDeleteI am overly compassionate by nature but in this case where was her compassion when she murdered those 7 innocent people including an unborn child, and their families? She deserves to die in prison, and even that is not punishment enough.
ReplyDeleteStretch the bitch out on a fire ant hill and let them put her out of our misery. I am incredulous that this animal has the nerve to request a compassionate anything from anyone. What arguement could she possibly come up with to warrant mercy -- when she laughed at Sharon Tate's desperate plea not to kill her unborn child? When she taunted the famililes of the victims? She could serve 1,000years in prison and it wouldn't be punishment enough. Someone needs to point out to her that the only compassion she ought to ever see is the repeal of the death penalty, which regrettably saved her from execution. We've kept this bitch well-fed and cared for on the taxpayers dime because a bunch of milquetoast do-gooders don't believe the death penalty deters crime. It would, if we ever carried it out.
ReplyDeleteIt's great that Susan Atkins is born again and has done a variety of good things while in prison. Fact remains, she's doing life for stabbing a person to death. People go to prison for life for murder and die there. So should she.
ReplyDeleteTrust me, they all find God when you put the screws to them hard enough!
ReplyDeletehow could she, pure evil have the nerve to ask for such mercy. she got her mercy already, she got life, not death, and she sure had not mercy on her innocent victims who had nothing to do with her other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. let her rot and die like she should in prison, that's the law, and let the law work.
ReplyDeletehow could she, pure evil have the nerve to ask for such mercy. she got her mercy already, she got life, not death, and she sure had not mercy on her innocent victims who had nothing to do with her other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. let her rot and die like she should in prison, that's the law, and let the law work.
ReplyDeleteShe has already been allowed to live unlike her victims.
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