Prison officials may free Manson family's Susan Atkins due to illness

[Willow]

State corrections officials are considering a request by former Charles Manson follower and convicted murderer Susan Atkins to be released from prison because of an undisclosed terminal illness.

Atkins' initial request for "compassionate release" consideration was made last month after a doctor determined that she had less than six months to live, said Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. It is unclear if Atkins, 59, made the request or if it was made on her behalf by a doctor or family member.



http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-me-atkins13-2008jun13,0,3725292.story



I don't agree with releasing her. Life means Life, or it should mean life.

[bijou]

I don't agree with releasing her either.

Atkins went on to explain that they selected the Tate house because it was isolated. Susan said they knew who the owner was but they didn't know or care who would be at the house that night.

Susan explained that there were four of them, three girls and a man, all of whom had been given their instructions by Charlie. When they got to the gate, the man cut the telephone wires. Next they shot the teenager four times because he had seen them.

When they got in the house, Susan said that in the living room there was a man on the couch and a woman on the chair reading. Then some of Susan's group stayed in the living room, while Susan went into the bedroom where Sharon was sitting on the bed talking to Jay Sebring. They quickly put nooses over Sharon and Jay's heads so that if they moved they would choke.

Frykowski ran for the door. "He was full of blood," she said and claimed that she had stabbed him three or four times. "He was bleeding and he ran to the front part, and would you believe that he was there hollering 'Help, help, somebody please help me,' and nobody came? Then we finished him off."

"Sharon was the last to die," Susan said with a laugh as she described how Sharon was begging her, " Please don't kill me. Please don't kill me. I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to have my baby. I want to have my baby."

Susan said she just looked at Sharon straight in the eye and said, "Look, bitch, I don't care about you. I don't care if you're going to have a baby. You had better be ready. You're going to die and I don't feel anything about it...In a few minutes I killed her."

Susan said she saw that there was Sharon's blood on her hand and she tasted it. "Wow, what a trip! To taste death, and yet give life."

Flabbergasted, Virginia asked Susan if it didn't bother her to kill a pregnant woman.

"I thought you understood. I loved her, and in order for me to kill her I was killing part of myself when I killed her," Susan explained. She had wanted to cut out Sharon's baby but there wasn't enough time. She had also wanted to take out all the victims' eyes and squash them against the walls and cut off and mutilate all of their fingers, but they didn't have the chance.

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http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/manson/confess_4.html

She should die in prison

[Chris_]

I don't agree with releasing her either.


She should die in prison

In agony.

I am in "an eye for an eye" mood today. You can BET Sharon Tate begged for compassion -- for her child and herself.  Atkins should get the compassion she dealt.

[morningAngel]

I agree.  Give her as much compassion as she gave others

But.... I can see the financial side too having just had the semi annual corporate financial ass whupping
The California Prison Systems Health Care system is overburdened to the extreme.  Lawsuits by the ACLU abound and if I were the warden, I would let the dying skank out and put the burden on someone else's bottom line.

[Willow]

I agree.  Give her as much compassion as she gave others

But.... I can see the financial side too having just had the semi annual corporate financial ass whupping
The California Prison Systems Health Care system is overburdened to the extreme.  Lawsuits by the ACLU abound and if I were the warden, I would let the dying skank out and put the burden on someone else's bottom line.

that would not make a difference. one way or another the taxpayer will pay her medical bills.

[morningAngel]

I agree.  Give her as much compassion as she gave others

But.... I can see the financial side too having just had the semi annual corporate financial ass whupping
The California Prison Systems Health Care system is overburdened to the extreme.  Lawsuits by the ACLU abound and if I were the warden, I would let the dying skank out and put the burden on someone else's bottom line.

that would not make a difference. one way or another the taxpayer will pay her medical bills.

yes, thats true..in the big picture..but everybody has a hand in the taxpayer's pocket, so its a matter of who gets to come out with a bigger fist full of dollars.
Getting compassionate leave for dying prisoners makes the correction system's bottom dollar look better.  The county will take her on and their bottom line will suck.
don't you just love a corporate world?

[Lord Undies]

Give her a battery acid enema and a Tums.

[Texacon]

Send her to Texas.  She won't have any medical bills here .... well ..... except for the $8 pharmacy bill.

KC

[Ptarmigan]

Let her rot in prison.