Billy Ray White has applied for parole for

Billy Ray White vowed 20 years ago that when he got out of prison, he would track down the relatives of the man he’d murdered and subject them to deaths. He wrote letters to the relatives threatening to torture and kill. The letters were from "Charles Manson," but White has admitted to writing them. In a 1991 letter to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Parole, he acknowledged that writing them was a "stupid thing" to do and asked for forgiveness. But the letters continue to haunt him, just as they do the recipients.(7)In late June, White was denied parole for the sixth time since he was sentenced in 1985 to two consecutive life sentences plus 10 years for Hall’s murder, armed robbery and theft of a motor vehicle, a parole board spokesman said. Prosecutors and the Hall family received the news from the parole board last month after mounting an impassioned campaign to keep White behind bars, citing fears that he would make good on his threats.(8)The parole board said in a June 24 notice to White that his release "would not be compatible with the welfare of society" because of the severe nature of his crimes.