"I don't have to just make amends to the victims and families," she said softly. The matronly, grey-haired Atkins who appeared before a parole board in 2000 cut a far different figure than that of the cocky young defendant some 30 years earlier. It was right then and I still believe it was right." Asked how it could be right to kill, she replied in a dreamy voice, "How can it not be right when it's done with love?" She said she felt "no guilt for what I've done. "She kept begging and pleading and begging and pleading and I got sick of listening to it, so I stabbed her." "I don't know how many times I stabbed (Tate) and I don't know why I stabbed her," she said. "I was stoned, man, stoned on acid," Atkins testified during the trial's penalty phase. "Helter Skelter" was written in blood on the refrigerator. The next night, a wealthy grocer and his wife were found stabbed to death in their home across town. He was not home, but Tate, who was 8 months pregnant, and four others were killed. They went to the home of Tate and her husband. They tried to absolve Manson, the ex-convict who had gathered a "family" of dropouts and runaways to a ranch outside Los Angeles, where he cast himself as the Messiah and led them in an aberrant lifestyle fueled by drugs and communal sex. But once they were convicted, the so-called "Manson girls" confessed in graphic detail. Supreme Court in the 1970s.ĭuring the sensational 10-month trial, Atkins, Manson and co-defendants Krenwinkel and Van Houten maintained their innocence. 2 that she "will pray for (Atkins') soul when she draws her last breath, but until then I think she should remain in this controlled situation." Debra Tate noted that she would have a 40-year-old nephew if her sister had lived.Ītkins' prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi, had spoken out earlier in favour of release, saying the mercy requested was "minuscule" because Atkins was on her deathbed.Ītkins and her co-defendants were originally sentenced to death but their sentences were reduced to life in prison when capital punishment was briefly outlawed by the U.S.
Debra Tate, the slain actress's younger sister, told the parole commissioners Sept.
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