No. That is the whole purpose of your sentence; to pay for your crime no matter what the consequences. I would not want to be the one making the decision to let her out. It may have repercussions.
SHOULD SUSAN ATKINS BE RELEASED FROM PRISON?
by Mary 63 Replies latest social current
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Big Tex
Not to hijack this thread, but after reading the comments about Homolka, I dashed on to Wikipedia for a snapshot.
Holy cow!!!
Karla Leanne Homolka, also known as Karla Leanne Teale, (born May 4, 1970 in Port Credit, Ontario, Canada), is a Canadian serial killer who attracted worldwide media attention when she was convicted of manslaughter in the rape-murders of two teenaged girls; her husband, Paul Bernardo, was convicted of their murders and admitted having raped numerous women. Homolka and Bernardo also were responsible for the rape and death of her sister Tammy Homolka.[2] In return for her confession and testimony against her husband, she was given a plea bargain whereby she escaped the maximum penalty for her crimes. She pled guilty to manslaughter and served 12 years in prison. She now lives in an undisclosed location in the Antilles with her son and her current husband, Thierry Bordelais.
Seriously now ... how does someone live with themselves after being involved in such a horrific crime?
I mean also for Atkins. How do you resolve it in your mind, knowing you were involved in, not just murder, but horrific, brutal crimes over and over again?
I don't understand. Maybe it's better that I don't!
Chris
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flipper
MARY- Probably not a good idea. It might make Paul McCartney not want to play " Helter Skelter" at his concerts anymore. Worse still; she may kill someone again
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james_woods
There may be another aspect - a negative aspect - to letting her go.
Would it be possible that some disturbed persons could accumulate around her as a cult figure, sort of a substitute for Manson himself? Could some other drug-induced looney group be encouraged to start something new because they sense that she was eventually let go and did not pay the full price?
You could make the argument that if Manson himself had been kept in jail where he belonged in the first place, this whole sorry thing might not have happened so many years ago. And we still do not really know how many people he really had killed.
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BreakingAway
Sharon Tate age 26, who was 8 months pregnant, was butchered; stabbed sixteen times.So Atkins killed Sharon Tate and her baby, and then, on the way out, she felt it was necessary to write "Pig" on the front door of her house in Sharon Tate's blood ! Who the hell would want to release a person like that ? She made her decision that day, one that had permanent consequences for the victim, and the family and friends of the innocent one they loved.....likewise should be the case for the perpetrator.
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hillary_step
Big Tex,
Seriously now ... how does someone live with themselves after being involved in such a horrific crime?
This is something that haunts my haunts my thinking too.
I have been working recently with a charitable concern that is helping to emotionally reconcile the over 40,000 Croatian women who were raped in every conceivable manner, some as young as six years of age, some kept as camp whores for years, servicing up to twenty men a night from the age of thirteen, some sold into slavery and smuggled to Russia, Bulgaria etc to work in brothels and the pronography industry, and who are still enslaved all these years later. Cut off from their family and their childhood dreams and imprisoned in a world of misery and insanity to serve as the playthings for brutal men, year after year.
It breaks me apart to read reports and eye witness testimonies, to look inside the vicious heart, while so very few men have ever been bought to trial. Thousands of sadistic rapists are walking free, living life among us, while their victims lie dead, mutliated, or damaged for life by their actions. How do they sleep at night? Who knows Chris. I wish that I believed in a God and a final court of judgement, but that luxury is not to be.
We must stand up in this life and be counted.
As to Atkins, having had the sort of nightmarish childhood most of us would have difficulty imagining, and then falling under the spell of a man she thought to be 'Jesus', when she was eighteen, she was a murderer waiting to happen. The racially bigotted, unhinged, but cunning Manson hoped that by sending out his cronies to commit horrendous crimes that would spark of a race war. I guess what cult victim and cult founder have discovered, as have we all as XJW's, is that the Ferryman must be paid and we must take responsibiity for our actions.
I have to say that given she became a Born Again Christian in 1974 faith to which she holds to this day, it is ironic reading the comments above from some Christians who do not seem to be the forgiving sort.
HS
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John Doe
Hell no she shouldn't get release!!!
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Hortensia
A life sentence means just that, life in jail. Death will be her release. She ruined her own life and letting her go would mean forgetting the really awful thing she did. She ruined her own life and took the lives of others and is living out the consequences.
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hillbilly
I have to say that given she became a Born Again Christian in 1974 faith to which she holds to this day, it is ironic reading the comments above from some Christians who do not seem to be the forgiving sort.
If that is true she will die and meet her Saviour and hear his judgment soon enough. She has nothing to fear on this earthly plane.
Seems like a whole lot of cons meet Jesus in prison.
Hill
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james_woods
+++ to Hillary_Step's comments with the white-hot power of a thousand burning suns.
This reminds me that a certain mentality simply cannot abide locking up obvious criminals for whatever time the court finds to sentence upon them. As HS says - when you do something as bad as this, you had better be ready to pay the freight.
A classic case would be convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. The far-left anti-death-penalty protestors (many Hollywood celebrities amoung them) have for many years helped blocked his execution. I can see that the death penalty itself might be something of an issue to argue, but many of these people go so far as to demand that he be set free!
The only reason these people don't advocate the same thing for Manson himself, IMHO, is the obvious backlash of public opinion.
Manson being the absolute American picture of evil (even if he didn't actually wield the gun or knife) while this killer Mumia is now the poster child for permissive justice (and he actually pulled the trigger and was caught with the smoking gun with the dead policeman beside him).
Make them both pay their price, say I.