Tuesday, one of the Charles Manson followers was denied compassionate release. 40 years ago, Susan Atkins killed actress Sharon Tate who was 8 ½ months pregnant. According to The Associated Press, Susan Atkins has brain cancer and doctors gave her several months to live. Her attorney and family tried to convince the California Board of Parole that her condition was enough reason to be released.

Unfortunately for Susan Atkins supporters, the board announced its unanimous decision after only 90 minutes. The prisoner was denied compassionate release as her past actions have been very cruel and she didn’t show any signs of remorse.

“She is a cold-blooded woman who to this day has not displayed any remorse,” wrote Sharon Tate’s sister Debra Tate, according to The Associated Press.

Also the relatives of the victims, the state corrections department, Los Angeles County prosecutors and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger were all against the release.

“Those kinds of crimes are just so unbelievable that I am not for compassionate release in that case,” Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday, before the parole board made its decision.

Although Atkins, 60, has served 37 years in prison and she has brain cancer, one leg amputated and the right side paralyzed, the parole board members were not impressed and kept in their minds what she did back in 1969. She showed no mercy to the victims and now she gets no mercy.

Allegedly Susan Atkins played a central role in the killing of Sharon Tate, the wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski. Atkins admitted to the fact that she stabbed the actress to death and claimed she was on LSD when she killed Tate who was begging for the life of her unborn baby. She then tasted Tate’s blood and used it to write “Pig” on the victim’s door. She apologized for the crime years later.

Susan Atkins, Charles Manson and two other cult members Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten, were tried for the 1969 cult killing of Sharon Tate, Leno and Rosemary La Bianca and four others.

Terry Thornton, Corrections Department spokeswoman, said that compassionate releases were rare in California, with just 10 of 60 requests granted last year.

Atkins’ medical treatment cost state taxpayers more than $1.4 million since March, when she was transferred to the hospital. She has been denied parole 12 times and she has been in jail longer than any other female inmate in state history.