There are regulations and considerations surrounding "compassionate release." I don't think they'd be possible for the worst of the worst.
Can we keep the focus on Susan Atkins' case, or at least compare on the same level? Atkins is hardly Dahmer. How did Dahmer do at his last parole hearing?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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