SAN LUIS OBISPO, Jan. 13 — Members of a group opposed to the release of one-time Charles Manson follower Charles “Tex” Watson gathered outside a prison Wednesday to let a parole board know how they feel.

“He forfeited his right to freedom when he killed my daughter and six other people,” Doris Tate said. anticipating the board’s consideration of Watson for parole today. Tate is the 58-year-old mother of one Manson murder victim, actress Sharon Tate.

“When they stabbed my daughter, who was pregnant, repeatedly, and then Tex Watson took and hung her by a rope…”

Tate’s voice broke off briefly as she wept. “They don’t deserve nothing,” she said.

Sharon Tate and four others were found slain at the Laurel Canyon home of Miss Tate’s husband, director Roman Polanski, in 1969. Manson, Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins and Leslie Van Houten are serving life sentences for the murders.

Watson, 37, was convicted of seven murder counts, including those at the Polanski home and the deaths a day later of grocery chain owners Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.

A self-proclaimed “born-again Christian,” he has been held at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo since 1971, and has been denied parole in four previous hearings.

Tate’s mother arrived at midafternoon at the prison about 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles. With her were two other members of the Orange County-based Citizens for Truth,
president John Mancino and Howard Garber.

They deposited 15 cardboard boxes, packed with petitions and about 80,000 letters on a curb outside the prison, and estimated they have 100,000 signatures in all.

The group met briefly inside the prison with counselor Carl Weaver, the liaison between the public and parole board. Weaver, who has described Watson as a “very good prisoner,” gave the group a receipt for the letters and petitions but made no public statement.