No mercy for the merciless

Well, someone in California State government got it right. Perhaps they started reading the blogs, or took a poll and realized that Californians want Susan Atkins to die in prison, not in a hospital bed surrounded by her friends and family. The only thing better than Susan Atkins dying in prison is if her family is sitting behind some Plexiglas wall, outside her room, unable to touch her, hold her, pray over her as she dies what will hopefully be an extremely painful and protracted death.

She showed no mercy, she should get no mercy.

Los Angeles (KFI) - California's parole board has a denied a "compassionate release" request from Manson family killer Susan Atkins.

Atkins is serving a life sentence for eight murders in 1969, including that
of pregnant actress Sharon Tate. Atkins admitted to holding Tate down and stabbing her more than a dozen times.

But Atkins, now 60, is dying of brain cancer. Her husband, James Whitehouse, pleaded with the parole board Tuesday for her release.

“Compassion’s not something you earn,” he says, “it’s something that every single person should have merely by means of the fact that they’re human beings.”

He says Atkins can barely function and has only about three months to live.

Debra Tate says Atkins didn't show her sister Sharon any compassion and should die in prison.

“She should die in a hospital ward and fulfill her obligation to society,” she says.

L.A. County's District Attorney sent a letter to the board Monday asking the chairman to deny Atkins' request. D.A. Steve Cooley said letting her out would be an "affront" to Californians and to the families of those murdered by the Manson gang nearly 40 years ago.

Because you have converted to Christianity (or Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, or the religion of peace, Muslimism) does not absolve you of your crimes and your debt to society.

Ms. Atkins you lost your right to compassion when you picked up a knife and killed eight people, nine if you include Paul Richard Polanski.

As you lay in bed dying, reflect on the pain you have caused. The lives you took; the lives that never had a chance to breathe air. The destruction you caused in the lives of so many. Reflect and ask forgiveness … alone. That is the only compassion you deserve.