Manson gang member Leslie Van Houten to be paroled. California stopping appeal of her release

Born_To_Lose said:
I would be interested to know how the parole board arrived at this decision. What if one of the victims were a relative of their’s. Wouould they be so forgiving? Have they spoken with the families or Roman Polanski?
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Strange thing... and I don't know the answer, but the LaBianca daughters spoke out against the release. Both Governors Brown and Newsom spoke out against her last FIVE parole requests. I really don't know what happened this time, but "she's old" somehow got her out of jail free.
 

CallMeKate said:
Strange thing... and I don't know the answer, but the LaBianca daughters spoke out against the release. Both Governors Brown and Newsom spoke out against her last FIVE parole requests. I really don't know what happened this time, but "she's old" somehow got her out of jail free.
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I think that because her sentence was commuted to life, then they should have stuck by it. It’s this new world order we’re dealing with that’s upsetting everything.
 
Born_To_Lose said:
I would be interested to know how the parole board arrived at this decision. What if one of the victims were a relative of their’s. Wouould they be so forgiving? Have they spoken with the families or Roman Polanski?
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Justice can't be blind if the victims' families make the decisions. Too emotionally involved. Don't blame them, of course, but families should never have final input.
 
Pepper said:
Justice can't be blind if the victims' families make the decisions. Too emotionally involved. Don't blame them, of course, but families should never have final input.
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I agree with the last sentence. The family’s opinion should be taken into consideration, but not a determining factor. I spoke to John Walsh while he was in Florida and I didn’t get into a long discussion with him, but I asked him did he think all child killers should be executed. We had been discussing penalties at the time. His reply was unless they were proven mentally unable to understand their actions, then yes. He added that he would like to see child killing while committing a sexual act should be a Federal crime so as not to allow states that have no death penalty, thus would help to get around the absence of their laws.

He was down there for the sentencing of a child killer who later received the death sentence, but died of natural causes in his cell. His name was John Couey. That day, I became a John Walsh fan. He has been very dedicated to seeing that children get more protection than what they had prior, although sexual abuse and killing does continue. I happen to have been at the Tampa airport when he came in. I saw a crowd around him and I thought it was a movie or rock star. He was only there for about 20 minutes when the police came and escorted him to his flight. He was headed back to Washington and me home for a day off. Tampa airport is nice, but crowded. I was there only by luck to change planes.
 

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