Susan Atkins Wants Out

[shamaal]

I reckon most people may not remember the Manson family.

Atkins testified before a Los Angeles Grand Jury, hoping to avoid the death penalty. She revealed how she held down Sharon Tate as she pleaded for her and the baby's life. She recounted how she told Tate, "Look, bitch, I don't care a thing about you. You're going to die and there's nothing you can do about it." To cause more suffering, they held off killing Tate until all others were dead, and then stabbed her repeatedly while she called out for her mother. Atkins later recanted her testimony.

Now she's sick and wants release.

Former Manson family member Susan Atkins has requested a "compassionate release" from prison because she has less than six months to live, a California prisons spokeswoman said Friday.

Atkins, 60, was convicted in the 1969 slayings of actress Sharon Tate and four others. She had been incarcerated at the California Institution for Women in Corona, California.

Atkins' husband and attorney, James Whitehouse, was quoted as saying she has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, according to a blog called Manson Family Today. She also has had a leg amputated, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday, citing sources close to the case.

The compassionate release request has been approved by the prison, which conducted an evaluation, and is under corrections department review, Thornton said.

Atkins, known within the Manson family as "Sadie Mae Glutz," has been in prison since 1971 and has been denied parole 11 times.

According to historical accounts of the murders, Atkins stabbed Tate, who was 8½ months pregnant, and scawled the word "pig" in blood on the door of the home the actress shared with director Roman Polanski.

Ex-Manson follower dying, seeks release from prison - CNN.com

[Sojourner]

Absolutely not! Her victims did not have any choice about living or dying or any sort of comfort.

[MONMIX]

consiquences of descisions is a law all must face

[Rick]

She needs to spend the rest of her life in prison. She doesn't deserve to breath air as a free woman ever again.

[jtsmith]

I think she should be released 2 minutes after we find out, for sure, the brain tumor is indeed terminal.

I mean-100 percent sure.

[Mountain Man]

She is DENIED

Dying Manson follower denied prison release - Crime & courts - MSNBC.com

[Rick]

That was a good call...

[Sojourner]

But her lawyers plan to appeal. I doubt that she will still be alive by the time the process is finished, though.

I love this following quote from Susan Atkins herself:

"She kept begging and pleading and begging and pleading and I got sick of listening to it, so I stabbed her," Atkins said during her testimony.

Of course, she didn't even apologize for it until she thought it would be advantageous to her own situation:

She claimed she was on LSD at the time, but did not apologize until a parole hearing years later.

I very seriously doubt that she was sincere. May she rot in Hades!