Breaking News: Susan Atkins denied compassionate release from prison; will die in prison

July 16, 2008 — mylifeofcrime


                 Susan Atkins (recent photo; date ?)

Release Denied for Sharon Tate Murderess
Parole panel denies compassionate release for Manson follower Susan Atkins
Protests against Susan Atkins’ release request expand
Release denied for dying Manson follower
Release Denied for Dying Manson Follower

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32 Responses to “Breaking News: Susan Atkins denied compassionate release from prison; will die in prison”

  1. Lavonna Says:
    July 17, 2008 at 8:31 am

    I’m glad she was denied AGAIN, you would think by now she would know that she is never going home. Personally, I think she should have been put to death years ago.

  2. Shauncey Says:
    July 17, 2008 at 11:12 am

    Lavonna,
    Oh yeah, I definately agree. What her and her “family” did to Sharon Tate and her friends (one being heiress Abigal Folgers, you know, Folgers coffee) they should’ve ALL been put to death. I hope she dies in jail.

  3. Lavonna Says:
    July 17, 2008 at 11:43 am

    I do too.

  4. Johnny Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 6:01 am

    Hope she dies in jail? Why? She did that 40 YEARS ago! Wise up! She is a totally different woman now. Leave her be…

  5. Lavonna Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 6:20 am

    Johnny I bet you would say different had that been your mom or sister she murdered.. You need to wise up. She did not die, she is still breathing and living.

    Have you never lost a loved one or someone that you care about? I never knew Ms. Tate but she did NOT deserve to die the cruel way that she did.

  6. mylifeofcrime Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 10:35 am

    Johnny,

    It does not matter that it was 40 years ago. Her original sentence was DEATH then it was changed to life in prison, not life until a disease. The citizens of CA overwhelming want her to stay in prison until she dies. Maybe you do not understand how heinous her crime was. Maybe you should see all of the crime scene photos. And read how she wanted to cut Sharon Tate’s baby out of her body and that she felt sexual satisifaction while stabbing her. But of course, she has “changed”, she turned to Jesus. Well, what does that matter? Karla Faye Baker did too, but she was executed (and I believe her change was more real).

    Life in prison should mean just that, life in prison. Try being someone who has lost a love one to murder. Try walking in their shoes before you make such insensitive remarks.

  7. Shauncey Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 11:37 am

    Johnny,
    So never mind all the wonderful people (who were full of promise) that she helped SLAUGHTER on that fateful night? “Leave her be, it was 40 yrs ago”. Thats 40 yrs that all the victims families have suffered. I hope she takes her LAST breath behind bars.
    RIP to Sharon Tate and all her friends that were murdered that night.

  8. marilyn Says:
    August 3, 2008 at 12:45 pm

    she was a young girl on drugs. let her go. she is harmless.

  9. mylifeofcrime Says:
    August 3, 2008 at 1:46 pm

    Harmless? You are kidding right? She is not harmless. She was an active participant in a very heinous crime. What she did was unspeakable. If it was your loved ones slaughtered the way these victims were, would you want her to get out?

    But, it does not matter. She is NOT getting out. She will die in prison as her sentence dictates.

  10. Jan Says:
    August 19, 2008 at 8:20 am

    People can change and Susan has done lots of good and meaningful work while in prison, but her crime was so heinous that she should never be released.

  11. Francoise Says:
    August 26, 2008 at 2:34 am

    Psychopaths never change, they just know how to play their roles well. Who’s next for the hand-wringers – Tex Watson? He’s been “saved, too, and is quite the angel these days. Yeah, right.

  12. Art Says:
    August 26, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    Really a tough one, glad the decision isn’t mine.

    What is her brain like? Is she functional or has the cancer so short circuited her brain the Susan Atkins we once knew no longer exists?

    From what I am hearing Susan had to have a leg amputated and she’s now bedridden confined to a prison hospital bed. Having a leg sawed off then having your brain eaten away. Sounds like pretty gruesome punishment to me. 40 years locked away to end up like this; sometimes I think she got the short end of the stick when the SC overturned the death penalty.

    She might be breathing but she’s already dead. Before long Susan will stand before God and I am content to let Him judge what is in her heart.

  13. rosie Says:
    September 10, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    Marilyn, Susan Atkins was not a young girl during the nights of murder. she was 21 years old. And as for blaming it on her drug use? Give me a break. Atkins had a criminal record way before she met manson. But here is my point. She participated in the murder of Gary Hinman, everyone at the Tate house, she was prepared to kill again the next night. she helped kill shorty Shea. A baby never had a chance to be born….once the death penalty was over turned she suddenly finds religion. I could go on and on but what you need to know is this…she was an adult when she killed. She has had 39 more years than her victims. College courses, art courses, marriages…the medical care she gets as an inmate is better than what most other folks get. I agree with Art. Let God take care of what is really in her heart. Look at the photos of the murder victims and tell me she is harmless.

  14. Tracy Says:
    September 23, 2008 at 10:49 am

    I really struggle with this. I first and foremost feel deep sorrow for the victims of these crimes. Let us never forget that the lives of loving, caring people were needlessly and violently snuffed out. But I also have to wonder if there is any chance that someone who could commit such atrocities could also be redeemed. I have to believe that it is possible because to do otherwise is to deny that there is a God. It is to acknowledge only evil. I agree with Art above who says that Susan will ultimately be judged by her maker. Whether she dies in prison or in a bed in her home really doesn’t matter to me. As far as I am concerned, she died on the day she participated in the Tate murders. She sealed her own fate that day. But to continue to burden the taxpayers with the astronomical costs of incarceration just doesn’t make sense to me when she is clearly no longer a threat to society. There is No Way she can get up from her death bed to commit more crimes, so why not release her and end the cost to everyone for what she has ultimately done. 40 years IS a lifetime…her debt is paid.

  15. mylifeofcrime Says:
    October 14, 2008 at 5:37 am

    NOTE FROM BLOG OWNER:

    Please read my comment policy before commenting. I will remove those that violate it.

  16. mylifeofcrime Says:
    October 14, 2008 at 5:39 am

    Tracy,

    40 years IS NOT life – not even close. Otherwise I myself should be dead, since I am over 40. No, life is life, which should be natural life – until the prisoner is dead.

  17. Lavonna Says:
    October 14, 2008 at 6:22 am

    Tracy I can’t believe that you think she should be released! What if that had been your mother that she killed? Would you still want her out? Remember how horrific that murder was? Not only did one life get taken but remember that Sharon Tate was pregnant!!!
    She deserves nothing but to be in prison for the rest of her life.. She should have gotten the electric chair but didn’t. I will gladly work the rest of my life if my taxes are counted on to keep her up. Heck, we’re keeping up those who can work but won’t so what’s a few more dollars.

  18. Sabra Says:
    November 3, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    We can’t bring back those poor innocent victims, and paying 1.4 million dollars every year to provide this lady with unneccesary security and medical care in a jail when it could be provided a lot more cheaply in a nursing home seems very irrational to me. I think if we set a precedent that compassionate release could be provided to people who are debilitated enough to have to go to a nursing home surely would not provide the families of the victim the illusion that the prisoner would gain an appeciable increase in their quality of life. It’s just that her care (for which, by the way, our hard-earned tax dollars have been providing when it could have gone instead to hungry children) is more expensive in a penitentiary, so why not take the cheaper way out?

  19. TED Says:
    November 8, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    MY COMMENT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN REMOVED…YOU SIMPLY CANT HANDLE ANYONE WHO DOSENT AGREE WITH YOUR NARROW MINDED POSITION….

    note from blog owner
    Ted,

    If your previous comment was removed, it had nothing to do with my opinions, but rather, it violated my comment policy, which you OBVIOUSLY have not read, as your comment above violates that as well. I remove comments that are in ALL CAPS or contain vulgarity. Read the comment policy before commenting. That is all I have to say.

  20. Lisa Says:
    December 30, 2008 at 6:14 am

    This photo was taken from a 2002 interview with Dianne Sawyer. You can see it on youtube.

    People can change. The 60’s were a different era in the way the social enviroment was (free love, communes, drug use) than today, but the punishment should remain the same. Sounds like she has gotten the death penalty again, but not by man.

    God rest all the souls who were involved in this entire tragedy. Just imagine what judgement day will be like for them. Good luck.

  21. mylifeofcrime Says:
    December 30, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    Lisa,

    Honestly, it does not matter if she changed. Her first sentence was death. Then it was changed to life. Life should be just that. Life.

  22. Ken Pasco Says:
    December 31, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    Well for my two cents, I think someone should tell her: “Look bitch, I don’t care a thing about you. You’re gonna die so get ready for it”

  23. Shocked Says:
    January 31, 2009 at 4:02 pm

    I am shocked by all you people who are saing that that bitch (sorry, I could not help) should be released! Are you all that insane or what is wrong with you? How even can someone say that she is another person? So what? Who cares after 40 years that she changed? Should we pitty her? For what? She got what she deserved. Oh, no, she did not. She ought to be DEAD! There is no reason to have any mercy with her. I cannot even believe that there is a man who married such a creature. What kind of man is that? Must be pritty sick and pervert! Yak! Even thinking of her is making me vomit. Look at the picture of the victims, look at the Sharons belly, think of that poor baby. And if you after that will say again that Susan Atkins deserve to by released, than there is something very wrong with you.

    note from blog owner

    I could not agree with you more.

  24. Andrea Says:
    February 1, 2009 at 7:53 am

    I definitely don’t think she should be released, but I’m sure she has changed. Prison time will do that to ya. But guess what? Once they are released, they change back. (99% of the time, at least)

    Her crime was awful, heinous, and sick. Death penalty? Nah. I think she is suffering just fine. Let her hurt every day. Hopefully, they are not doping her up in there to numb the pain. So what if we are paying for it. I am a single mother of 3, and honestly, I don’t see too much of a difference in my paycheck because of this woman, or anyone else like her for that matter. I work full time. I pay taxes, they go wherever the hell the government decides to send them. Get over it. If it weren’t for this, then they would find somewhere else to send those dollars.

    Let her die in prison. She didn’t spare any of the lives she took that night, so she doesn’t deserve for hers to be spared.

  25. Al Says:
    February 17, 2009 at 6:34 pm

    Susan Atkins’ last words to Sharon Tate when asked to spare her life for the fact she was pregnant were:
    “I have no sympathy for you bitch!…” She referred to Steven Parent as : “the thing we saw in the car…”.
    I too believe she may very well not be the same person anymore; but you make your bed and you sleep in it. She gets no sympathy from me.

  26. Patty Cakes Says:
    March 24, 2009 at 11:56 pm

    haha all you guys are stupid.. WOWWEEii blah blah 40 years this 40 years that.. this happened be cause one wacked out drug addict got another drug addict to recruit some runaway teenagers that find one of the beach boys that in turn, inevitably ended up being a fucking massacre! not to mention Helter Skelter, Manson believed that the race of whites will reign supreme over blacks and what not then they will all kill each other, then the Manson family of like 23 will rule the nation.. sounds a little far fetched to me.. and everything you read on wikipedia isn’t true you guys.. sorry to say you really had to be there to know what really happened.. cause to be honest, they were probably too fucked up to realize what was going on when they did do the Tate and LaBianca murders, THAT WAS HOW MANSON MANIPULATED THEM TO DO THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! and yeah i say they should not have outlawed the death penalty in Calif. but it happened and now after denied parole hearings after another you have to realize, THEY AREN’T GETTING OUT! they will end up dying there and that is that. yes, what they did was wrong but they did it and it happened. And with the Beatles, you have to realize that they were on drugs too.

    Pat

  27. Patty Cakes Says:
    March 24, 2009 at 11:59 pm

    sorry for my vulgarities.

    Pat

  28. Arika Says:
    May 17, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    Whether or not she has changed or whether or not anyone forgives her, or least of all whether or not she is actually sorry all have nothing to do with the fact that there are CONSEQUENCES to our actions in life. Sharon Tate begged for the life of her just about to be born baby! To the person who said she should be let go due to the amount billed our tax dollars, come on – really!?! So no one should serve their sentences based on cost? Your priorities are screwed up, is it costing too much to jail Scott Peterson?

  29. Shauncey Says:
    May 18, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    The bitch will die in prison, exactly what she deserves. I don’t mind spending my tax dollars on this one at all. She was an ADULT when this crime took place, so she should have adult consequences. For someone to kill a pregnant woman the way she did, with Sharon BEGGING for the life of her unborn child, is just unreal. Anyone who has sympathy for this bitch can kiss my a**, and the asses of ALL the victims’ families.

  30. not forgotten Says:
    June 5, 2009 at 9:50 am

    I am a young person and just research the hole story… I definitely agrre.. she must stay where she is, without comforts…
    Paul Richard Polański would celebrate his 40th Birthday this years….

  31. Legally Yours Says:
    June 5, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    I agree with Tracy. Also, for those of you who don’t know, Atkins has served a life sentence under CA. She was NOT sentenced to life without parole. I personally believe she should have been sentenced to life without parole, but she wasn’t. We are a society of laws, and we have to follow them, or try to change them if we deem fit. A judge who recently reviewed the case stated that the parole board does not have the right to impose life without parole on someone who did not receive that sentence. That is in effect what they are doing when they repeatedly deny parole to someone with a good prison record, basing their denial on the original crime. And to answer the inevitable comments about “What if it was your mother she killed?”, my answer is that, if that were the case, I shouldn’t be the one deciding judgment because I could not view it clearly.

  32. mylifeofcrime Says:
    June 6, 2009 at 7:13 am

    However, just because they have the option of getting parole does not mean they can or should get it. Many times, it does mean they will and should spend all of the rest of their life in prison. As it should in this case, and especially so.


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