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Susan Atkins, a Manson family member, is requesting "compassionate release" from prison due to terminal cancer and a prognosis of 6 months to live. IMO, she should be required to serve the remainder of her “life” sentence in prison, given the heinous nature of her crimes. What are your thoughts?
It can be argued that people can change for the better after so many years in prison.
It sadly does not negate the horror and brutality she showed those people before they were murdered.
She should stay in prison, and be buried on its grounds.
I've always thought that if someone truly "changes for the better," and accepts responsibility for a crime, that accepting the punishment would be part of that. Trying to weasel out of the sentence indicates something short of full acceptance of responsibility, and is simply self-interest.
Life means life, and it applies here too. She already has had a leg amputated, and apparently has a brain tumor. Seems to be a fitting end of her life to me:
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.
"I don't want to seem like a heartless creature, but in all my years, I never considered this could happen," Debra Tate, the actress' sister, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
"She showed no compassion. She told my sister as she slit her throat that she didn't (care) for her or her unborn baby," Tate added.
Life means life, and it applies here too. She already has had a leg amputated, and apparently has a brain tumor. Seems to be a fitting end of her life to me:
ITA! She did not show a modicum of “compassion” for her victims. Likewise, she should receive none.
What I have never understood is how can these women go into parole hearings (I have watched a couple of them our of curiosity) and claim they are rehabilitated etc. but yet none of them spoke about the bodies of others that were killed on the Manson family ranch and buried there??
If you knew what you had done was wrong then why didn't they talk about this LONG ago and allow the families of the people they killed to be at peace?
Sorry but my sympathy is not with the prisoners but with the families of their victims. I can't imagine the horror of loosing a loved one that way AND having it splashed all over the news for people to read about.
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