California Commission on the parole Board first considered a request to release the follower of the sect of Charles Manson — 71-year-old Robert Beausoleil. Prior to that, he was denied parole 18 times.
Beausoleil was convicted of the murder of musician Gary Hinman in 1969. Man sentenced to death in 1970, but in 1973, after California temporarily abolished the death penalty, it was replaced with life imprisonment. Now Beausoleil is in a medical facility in Vacaville, 76 km from San Francisco.
K. Hinman, Marti, cousin Gary Hinman present at the hearing on Thursday, January 3, said that he was going to personally ask Governor Gavin News that he refused the pardon in Beausoleil. The woman was sure that the murderer is her cousin all my life will spend in jail.
Debra Tate, the sister of another victim of the «Family» Manson — Sharon Tate, has created a petition against early release, Beausoleil and other followers of Manson. Tate said that the Beausoleil mental problems and still enough power to commit a crime. In addition, he repeatedly violated prison rules by selling his drawings of child pornography.
Meanwhile, the lawyer Beausoleil Jason Campbell says that his client is no longer a threat and that «it is not the same person I was in 1969.»
