Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten released from jail after 53 years
Days earlier, Governor of California Gavin Newsom announced that he would not fight a state appeals court ruling that Van Houten should be granted parole.Van Houten is expected to spend about a year in transitional housing, learning basic skills such as how to go to the grocery store and get a debit card.Van Houten was originally sentenced to death for helping Manson's followers carry out the August 1969 killings of Leno LaBianca, a grocer in Los Angeles, and his wife, Rosemary.
Her sentence was later commuted to life in prison when the California Supreme Court overturned the state's death penalty law in 1972.Van Houten later described holding Rosemary LaBianca down with a pillowcase over her head as others stabbed her, before she also stabbed the woman more than a dozen times.The slayings happened the day after Manson followers killed actress Sharon Tate and four others.
She first filed an appeal with a trial court, which rejected it, and then turned to the appellate courts. The appellate court's ruling in May reversed an earlier decision by Mr Newsom, who rejected parole for Van Houten in 2020. She has been recommended for parole five times since 2016 and all of those recommendations were rejected by either Mr Newsom or former governor Jerry Brown.In a statement issued on July 7, the governor's office said: "More than 50 years after the Manson cult committed these brutal killings, the victims' families still feel the impact."
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