Leslie Van Houten Sentence

The other night, I'd added stuff to my Joan Crawford site for a few hours, but, at the end of doing so, was still pumped up and not ready to go to bed yet. So I went to the Yahoo comments about releasing Leslie Van Houten (Manson family member who participated in the LaBianca killings) after 50+ years in prison.

The first thing I saw there was some guy saying "All you MAGA mutts don't believe in the law." Well, since I like Trump a lot because of both his policies and his boldness, I felt the need to reply: "What does Trump have to do with Manson? And why 'mutts'?"

It then went on for a while. He wouldn't stop, and I wouldn't stop. I'd come off doing Joan Crawford website stuff feeling very good, and then I descending into a crappy hell-hole. 

I kinda have to let this be a lesson to me: Don't engage with random folks on Yahoo. (Learned the same years earlier on Facebook, when whatever I would post about Joan Crawford would get some weird, nonsensical, negative comments from random people.)

BTW: My comment about the Leslie Van Houten story: She was 19, had been living at the Manson commune for about a year and went along for the LaBianca killings. (A p.s.: She'd been doing LSD and benzedrine since age 15: Thanks, Jack Kerouac/Neal Cassady/Ken Kesey for making benzedrine/LSD use seem cool.)  She stabbed Rosemary LaBianca either while alive or after her death.

Say the worst: Van Houten stabbed Rosemary LaBianca while alive: If that's the case, then Van Houten deserves severe punishment. But I think 50+ years is, indeed, "severe punishment." For a crime she did not either initiate or enact with vengeance.

Here's an example of another crime in California---the murder of actress Dominique Dunne by an obsessed boyfriend. From Wikipedia:

On October 30, 1982, Dunne was strangled by her ex-boyfriend, John Thomas Sweeney, during an argument on the driveway of her West Hollywood home. She fell into a coma and died five days later on November 4, 1982. In a court case which gained significant media coverage, Sweeney was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Dunne's death, and served three and a half years in prison.

Three-and-a-half years in prison for an intentional murder.

So, yes, I think Leslie Van Houten should be set free after 50+ years in prison.