Charles Manson (also known as Charles Millers Maddox), a self-proclaimed messiah who presided over a communal group known as the Manson family, was convicted in a California trial in 1971 , the trial brought a total of 27 charges against him and members of the family for the murder of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate (who was pregnant at the time of the murder), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, supermarket executive Lenore LaBianca and his wife Rosemary.
In 1972, after the California v. Anderson case, the death penalty for all members of the Manson family was commuted to life imprisonment, and the death penalty was considered cruel and unusual, and was temporarily abolished until it was restored by the Constitutional Amendment. Since the draft, Manson has been denied parole 11 times during 2007, and his next chance came in 2012.
Has justice been served in the case involved? Should death-row inmates in California’s correctional system have their sentences commuted? Should Manson and his followers be executed as originally sentenced?
