This is well written. I agree fully with your view point on Susan Atkins. I hear of way too many people that say "Ohhh these murders took place nearly 40 years ago, let the poor woman free". It boils me. Time doesn't heal things like murder! Had the people at Sharon Tates residence not been murdered, they would be in their sixties today! And Sharons baby would now be 39. The LaBianca's would be in their sixties or seventies.

Susan Atkins was given 39 extra years after these horrible murders, since her death sentance was commuted to life, and I think she should be happy she got that much.

This is interesting, and I agree that things will not be fixed this upcoming year. Rock bottom may come anywhere between tomorrow and forever.

So we kill Atkins and solve our budget crisis? Get real you moron.

I think what you have wrote about Susan is vicious and evil. I though the same as you until a few years ago, but learning more about the case I know definitely 3 things:
1. Susan didn't kill anyone; she took part in 2 murders, true, but her deeds wasn't the cuase of death to ANY OF THE VICTIMS -not Gary hinman or Sharon Tate and Wojciec Wytkowsky. She was accused of the LaBianca murder even though SHE REFUSED to take part in this murder.
2. Susan IS rehabilitated now, and in other countries she wouldn't even been charged with murder and could have been free by 1986 (incl. my country). She never have been dangerous to others once she broke loose off Manson's Satanic spell. Manson was afraid of her testimony so he threaten her life if she wouldn't withdraw from her willingbess to cooperate witht he prosecution. Although initially stating she killed Sharon Tate, she didn't. It was Tex Watsona dn Patricia Krenwinkel's stabs which killed Sharon.
3. Susan wasn't obliged to, but over the years she aided many people in jail and outside it, initiated inter-religious programs and has not an ounce of rasicm, hate to other people or evilness (in fact, people who knew her even in the hey days of the Manson cult testify she wasn't an evil person never.

I think that if the man who put her behind bars supports her mercy release, why do people so gladly implying on her things she never done and wasn't the mastermind of it?

Please don't think I'm for setting the other real murderers free - not Charles Manson, not Tex Watson or Pat Kerwinkel. I am for them to get rotten in jail until theie death, but Susan Atkins-Whitehouse should be free and her death is not a solution to the US economy's woes. Susan's death will not compensate for what Manson did to ruin the souls of so many young boys and girls in 1968-9. It will only get greif to her family and friends.

Eran