May 23

CORCORAN, Calif. - Cult leader Charles Manson was denied parole today, the 11th time since 1978 that he was ordered to continue serving life sentences for a murderous rampage in Los Angeles County in 1969.

Manson, 72, did not attend or send a representative to the proceeding before the Board of Parole Hearings at Corcoran State Prison.

He previously told a prison counselor that he refuses to participate because he considers himself a "prisoner of the political system".

The board voted to deny Manson parole for five years, the maximum allowed by law. Manson will not be eligible for release again until 2012.

Despite his age, Manson "continues to pose an unreasonable danger to others and may still bring harm to anyone he would come in contact with," the board wrote in its denial.

Manson has had 12 disciplinary violations since his last parole hearing in 2002. He refused to take advantage of rehabilitation programs, and he would not participate in a psychiatric evaluation.
He has expressed no remorse or empathy for any of the victims."

Manson initially was sentenced to death for the August 1969 fatal stabbings of five people in
the home of actress Sharon Tate and the murders the next day of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Prosecutors said Manson and his followers were trying to incite a race war that he believed was prophesied in the Beatles' song "Helter Skelter."
He also was convicted of the earlier murder of musician Gary Hinman in his Topanga Canyon home, and the slaying of former stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea at the Spahn movie ranch in Chatsworth where Manson had his commune.

His death sentence was changed in 1977 to life in prison with the possibility of parole, the result of a 1972 ruling by the California Supreme Court that found the state's death penalty law at the time unconstitutional.

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Why do they even bother? They know before it even comes up that they are not going to release him. It is a waste of time and money. Just have everyone on the parole board put thier little initials on it and be done with it. Hell, even Manson knows they aren't going to let him go, he didn't even bother to show up for it himself.

That's what I was gonna say too.......

One of the few times I was able to beat you to it,lol

Take him out back, tell him to kneel, put a .45 bullet in his brainpan.
Problem solved.
Trouble is, problem solved more than 35 years too late!
Why this monster was allowed to live is beyond me. I've read Helter Sketlter twice. Chilling. His followers should have danced on air at the short end of a rope, too.

Charles Manson

Why does this guy even have the opportunity, for parole, every time I see him interviewed I get the "CHILLS"

He wacked, he makes no sense when he talks...He is one example of lets lock the door, and throw away the key

Jeeez I didn't even know he was still alive.

Life in prison is better than Death ......Think of the mind numbing boredom of it.
The Death Sentence only brings us down to their level.
I Believe that the worse the crime the fewer the priveleges inside.....A lifetime of boredom is better and it allows us to keep the moral high ground.

Is Charles Manson that Cult Leader from the 60's? I've heard of him, but not much.

He shouold be denied parole for his acts in the past.

manson is safer in jail then he is on the streets and he knows it...im shure the tate family has a standing bond on his head if he should ever walk out of his cell...

The thing about Little Ol Charlie is that he feels safe in jail, he's spent most of his life (before the Helter Skelter Incident) in jail anyhow. I feel that people who spend most of their childhood and early adult life in prison don't know how to act any other way than how they do in prison.
So Prison becomes comfortable with them. Just like Charlie.
So I feel that In Charlie's case, he should have been killed along time ago.
It's pointless to waste our tax money on his stupid life.

agreed...I'm not sure why he's still kicking?

I couldn't agree more.

Some years back, one of his parole hearings was televised, Manson look right into the camera and said "I'll do it again if you let me out".
And you know what's really scarey, there are still a lot of Manson followers all over this country, not counting all the children he fathered before his arrest in 1969. He had sex with all of those girls at the spawn ranch, and there were many of them.

Paris Hilton gets a break, released from jail into her expensive and well stocked home and this poor old man can't even get paroled.








Yes, I'm kidding.

He knows he'll never be paroled. But he did manage to get himself back in the limelight for a few minutes. And to him, that's probably just as good.. his name's in the papers again and people are talking about him.

He's a crazy mass murderer. He can rot in prison for all I care.

AAhhhh poor Charlie.
They should let him out and son of sam berkowitch.
They could open a broadway show,
Ladies and gentlemen we are proud to present, The all singing, all dancing, Charlie and Sam show... opens to thundrous applause.
yes im kidding.

Every time I hear anything about Charles Manson, I remember an interview done with him years ago by the late Tom Snyder. Here's an excerpt...source at bottom of page:

Manson: and some other kids picked it up in their minds. And they said “What do you think Helter Skelter is” and I say “Well I get out of the penitentiary in the 50’s and everybody’s going (claps) “dun….dun….dun” (claps) and they’re walking like that. I get locked back up, and I get out of the penitentiary in 65 and it’s going (claps faster) “dun..dun..dun..dun” And locked up again I come out in 69 and it’s going (claps very fast) “dundundundundundundun” and I was thinking “Wow man, wow far out”

Tom: Wow what? Wow what? Come on keep going, Charles, keep going.

Manson: I was a beatnik, I was a beatnik in the 50’s before the hippies came along. You know, and I cut a rut down through Acapulco, and I smoked Acapulco before you knew what it was, and I lived in the tombs and I was in the Cook County jail in Chicago when you were playing cricket in, uh, high school. See, like you live in another world. I live in street peoples world.

Tom: Manson had a plot, “Helter Skelter.”

Manson: Yeah…

Tom: Manson had uh a little scheme called creepy crawlers. He’d send people in to move furniture around. Is that all a figment of someone’s imagination so far or is there any truth to that? Tell me Charles, I don’t know.

Manson: It’s a fairy tale. It’s worse than a fairy tale.

Tom: It’s a fairy tale?

Manson: It’s, uh, it’s, it’s a comedy. It’s a comedy tragedy, uh, opera that (chuckles) was played in the, uh, early morning.

Tom: Come on Charles off..

Manson: It was sickening. You know?

Tom: Get off the space shuttle.

Manson: Well that’s what the D.A. gave you as reality.

Tom: Ok.

Source

That came to my mind as well. why is he still alive? They have no problem putting others down for a far lesser crime. There must be some kind of reason behind it . Maybe they are studying him to learn how other ppl like him act and possibly be stopped...I dunno , but it makes one wonder why..

When he was sentenced to life in prison it was before life without parole was used in the legal system, so they have to give him his chance every whatever amount of years.

Didn't he say he had a few more people to kill if he is ever let out? *shakes head*

aww poor Charlie.
all he did was brain wash people with LSD & orgies.
did he even kill anybody?

let the poor sap be free.
he's too nutty to make conversations now.
surely he would be roaming the streets, you know. homeless.
oh, & finally picking at his guitar sadly rotting somewhere unknown.

i love you, Charlie!!
xo

He convinced 3 or 4 kids (can't remember) to break into someones home and kill the occupants. I hardly see how he is a "poor sap" who should be let free. If he got out he'd kill people, he has even stated so. I hope your post was sarcastic, or you just don't know anything about Charles Manson, or you're just, well, I don't want to get banned.

For anyone saying he needs to die...the ends do not justify the means.


Like it or not, the death penalty is a way to coerce people into a confession or otherwise. There is no moral dilemma to be had without it.


And they have to go through these proceedings because it is mandated by law. He isn't a "special" criminal..just an infamous one.

yes, i was being sarcastic.
"Helter Skelter" was enough reading to inform me.
i just think Charlie would be a trip to hang with. ^__^
as for him killing after being released?
maybe he would, maybe he wouldn't.
only way to know is to find out.
sell him to the evil so they might have a clue.
xo

I say we let him out of prison just for a laugh.

Lets not. And say we did, ZEW.

I rather have a dangerous celt leader behind bars. Where he can't do any harm.

depends how you put it, could happen

"Today Singer, Songwriter, and Visionary Charles Milles Manson was finally released after being forcibly held behind bars through 12 Parole hearings."

something along those lines. the media do a better job of it.

Can't do that, not because it is immoral or moral, but because people want to know everything that is going through his head. Out of control teens will idolize him, and the rest of us will wonder what the heck is his braincell doing. It all comes down to needing the gruesome details... Same reason for traffic jams when there is a wreck on the side of the road. But I agree that the man needs to either be contained or dead....

Why would a person like Manson even try to get parole? You would think that he would get the picture after his 3rd or 4th denial. I did a little bit of research on Manson some time ago. This guy was in and out of jail for the better part of his life. The courts have given this man chance after chance and each time they let him out he went back to crime doing something worse than the time before.

True, but at least formally he has to be given the same rights as everybody else. And waste of money ... the parole board exists anyway. Initialing another paper wont cause undue costs (about one pen in 100 years).

How can a man who was once on death row even be giving the right to a parole hearing..?..This is a sick man who needs to be but back on death row now that they have reinstated it.......

Everybody is equal under the law, and if some start be more equal than others then the whole system colapses.

I happen to agree with that, But this man was sentenced to die and sense they have reinstated his first sentence he needs to go back....What would happen if he got out, I have watched him say he kill again so why is tax money going to feed a man that has no use for other human life..?

Lets spend that money on children who need to be feed and medical care for the old, Not a killer that just got a lucky break cause they removed him from death row and had nothing else to do with him at the time.....

He was sentence to die by his peer's and this needs to be carried out, He didn't have mercey for the people he killed or the unborn child did he.....

Some people never learn. It never goes through their thick skulls.

And every time he,s up for parole Sharon Tates sister goes to the hearing to remind the parole board of what a horrible death her sister and her unborn child suffered ! I can,t imagine how she can face that and relive those awfull memmories time and time again! I just wish he,d drop dead already!