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neophyteanna -> RE: Sharon Tate (7/16/2008 10:08:58 AM)
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When I was still very young I went to the same church and school as Sharon Tate's neice. We became very good friends before she moved away, and I remember that every couple of months her mother (Tate's sister) would have what she called a sad day. I happened to be there one day when it happened; she cried, screamed, locked herself in a closet, and stayed in there all day without getting out to get food or water and she didn't go to the bathroom. I called my grandma and she came and picked up both of us, and only after my friend's dad picked her up did my family explain to me why her mom was always sad. I know that my friend's mom and grandmother went to every single parole hearing for each person in jail for this to ensure that the victums were remembered by the pannels until the day they died. My friend told me about how she had nightmares constantly and was afraid that someone would still come after her and the rest of her family.
What the Manson followers did wasn't just end the lives of innocent people in horrific ways; they destroyed the lives of all of their families. I wish that the death penalty hadden't been overturned while all of these people were sitting on death row, but it was and their sentances can't be reveresed back to it after they were commuted to life in prison. For me, life in prison means is exactly that, not "when you are old and sick we will let you out so you can die somewhere else." Let her rot there is what I say.
"What mercy, Sir, did you show my daughter when she was begging for her life? What mercy did you show my daughter when she said give me two weeks to have my baby and then you can kill me? ... When will [Sharon] come up for parole?... Will these seven victims and possibly more walk out of their graves if you get paroled? You cannot be trusted". -Doris Tate, mother of Sharon Tate at Charles Watson's first parole hearing.
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