Which member of the Manson family was trying to get released?
She is dying of brain cancer, and has had one leg amputated and is paralyzed on the left side, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and others involved in the decision feel her crimes were too brutal to be given mercy by releasing her from prison. She has been denied parole 12 times. Atkins, is 60 years old now, and has been in prison for 37 years. She admitted to repeatedly stabbing pregnant actress Sharon Tate 16 times, and wrote on the wall with her blood, and told witnesses she stabbed Ms. Tate until she stopped screaming. She was sentenced to death in 1969, along with other members of the Charles Manson cult who committed the murder of seven people, but their sentences were changed to life in prison when the California Supreme Court decided the death penalty was unconstitutional. The only plus side to her release would be the costs savings to the taxpayers of California. “Corrections Department spokeswoman Terry Thornton said Atkins’ medical treatment and paying for prison guards to wat
