She's now 73 years old. She's had a spotless prison record for over 50 years. So, obviously, she is not a "threat". Her crime wasn't as bad as her cohorts like Tex Watson and Patricia Krenwinkel. They both deserve life in prison.
Leslie stabbed an already dead or dying woman previously from Tex Watson. Tex handed her the knife and said "Do something". They probably would have killed Leslie too if she refused.
--Michael D. Clarke
NOPE...SHE SUCKS...FUCK HER.
shareThese killings were horrific and vicious. Just because she didn't stab her first doesn't take away the mad multiple stabbings she gave her. A truly penitent criminal would accept her sentence.
shareA "mistake" is when you had a bit too much to drink before getting behind the wheel and cause a crash. A "mistake" is when you lose your temper in the middle of an argument, and knock someone down who breaks his skull on the pavement. A "mistake" is the result of momentarily bad judgment.
Participating in a brutal, premeditated, horrific murder is not a "mistake." It's a willful, wanton act of deliberate malice, cruelty, and viciousness.
Some crimes are so egregiously bad that there should be no possibility of parole, and the sentence is meant not only to serve as punishment for the malefactor, but as a warning to others. As George Savile, Marquis of Halifax put it: “Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.”
Yeah, that sure was a "mistake". It would almost be funny if calling brutal murder just a mistake.
"Mistakes" like Leslie van Houten's are committed by sociopaths who are utterly devoid of conscience! I once ran over a bird by accident. It got in front of my car. I was sick over it for days.
I cannot imagine wanting to be a willing participant in carnage.
I want to scrream when I hear about all those killers who are on their "best behavior" in prison. Yeah, they behave because they want to get OUT! Too bad they couldn't "behave themselves" when out in society and confronted with the opportunity to stab their helpless victims.
From other things I've read, van Houten was rather miffed that she wasn't asked to go along on the first night of killings. She wanted to be included on the second murder spree.