California Governor Gavin Newsom denied 74-year-old Patricia Krenwinkel from being released on parole, according to multiple media reports. The governor rejected the recommendation for her release on Friday, stating that she still poses an unjustifiable danger to society if paroled at this time. This was her 15th attempt at being granted parole.
Patricia Krenwinkel, a former member of the Manson Family, is currently serving a life sentence. The racial and eschatological views of Charles Manson were completely adopted by Krenwinkel, according to reports, Newsom said. She also made a sizable contribution to the misery and bloodshed that the Manson Family left behind.
According to reports, Newsom felt that neither she had “sufficient insight” into what had led her to participate in the murders nor did her efforts sufficiently lowered her risk for future dangerousness. In the cult, she had played a leadership role and had been an enforcer of Manson’s tyranny, forcing women to obey Manson, and not allowing them to leave when they wanted to.
Krenwinkel was found guilty in the 1969 murders of Sharon Tate, a pregnant actress, and four other persons. Manson’s plan was to incite a race war, the prosecution claimed, and she had assisted in the murders of Leno LaBianca, a grocery store owner, and his wife Rosemary.
Newsom made his decision after the state Board of Parole Hearings recommended the Krenwinkel’s release in May, stating Krenwinkel had “demonstrated profuse contrition” and had completed education and rehabilitation programmes while serving her sentence.
Manson gave orders to a select group of his followers, including Krenwinkel, Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, and Leslie Van Houten, to murder nine people over the course of two nights in August 1969 in Los Angeles. Another Manson devotee named Linda Kasabian became the state’s main witness and received immunity in return for her testimony.
The former cult member admitted that on August 9, 1969, as other Manson followers savagely murdered Tate, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, and Steven Parent, they repeatedly stabbed Abigail Folger, the heir to the coffee fortune, to death inside Tate’s home. The following evening, Krenwinkel stabbed Leno LaBianca, a supermarket CEO, and his wife Rosemary in the abdomen with a fork. Then she wrote “Helter Skelter,” “Rise,” and “Death to Pigs” on the walls using their blood.
After being found guilty on seven charges of first-degree murder in 1971, Krenwinkel was given the death penalty. The sentence for her was eventually commuted to life in prison with the chance of release after the California Supreme Court ruled in 1972 that the death penalty was unconstitutional,.
Krenwinkel’s lawyer said that since her conviction 51 years ago, she has completely changed. Krenwinkel claimed that when she was under Manson’s control, she was physically, sexually, and emotionally abused by him. She asserted that she frequently used narcotics to get high.
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