>>>>>Should she be let out of prison? Why?
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>>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/13/manson.atkins/index.html
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>>>>I recall many people here argued that in lue of the death penalty, they would be for an absolute life sentence. Infact, some said it should be hard labor camp for these murders.
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>>>>Why should she get special treatment?
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>>>I think circumstances matter. We have no dispute that she committed a heinous crime and was properly sentenced. (Well, maybe you wanted death, which I disagree with). Let her spend the rest of her life in prison -- we are in agreement there.
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>>>But then things change. It's 4 decades later and she has been diagnosed with 6 months to live. It's hard to make a case that she has not suffered for her crime or is a threat to society. I dunno..
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>>With all due respect Mike, you're a bleeding-heart flake.
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>>The fact that she is a mass murder and that she ruined many lives will never change, shouldn't that matter more?
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>>I would be all right with life in prison, but it's bleeding heart liberals who run some of our justice system that I don't trust.
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>Bleeding heart flake .... hmmm. I do not think of myself that way but maybe we're the last to know.
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>My take is she has been in prison for a long time and has paid her penance to society.

Wrong. Her sentence is life in prison, so she has not paid it all. Let her be repentance in jail where she belongs.

>Given that she is an old woman and has only a few months to live, let her walk the earth. I don't see a lot of downside.

if she doesn't die in six months, do you put her back in?

>She doesn't seem like a current menace to society.

There you go again letting your feelings get involved. You were right the first time, you "dunno".


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>FWIW I would not say the same of Charles Manson. He was the ringleader. Let him rot.

Why? he's too old and weak to hurt anyone. Why not let him out too.

Put her in the same cell and let them rot together.