I used to be a death penalty advocate until I found The Innocence Project & began to think we might study these criminal aberrants in order to isolate the construct. As we can now see into the brain & no longer advocate corporal punishment upon children, we might be better served socially keeping them for organ harvesting upon their demise. No better manner by which to recompence society than giving 2 kidneys. Are we killing people who are by an enlightened definition of insanity, compromised. Serial killers, pedophiles can not resist their urge or choose not to. Can any of us say we can always resist our urges? I can not resist my urge to punch the "Mango Mussilini" in the solar plexus, so I don't go to his rallies. Then of course there is our history of executing innocent people due to their incorrect skin color. Also the government should not be in the business of killing anyone using our tax dollars to do so. That can get out of hand considering the current GOP.

This is true but Manson and all his followers should have been executed. The state chickened out and they got life in prison.

@David1955 I Belive Bernard crowe was a drug dealing member of the Black Panthers who kidnaped Tex Watsons girlfriend in a drug deal gone bad. Manson stabed him trying to save her.

@David1955 The Biker group your thinking of was the Stright Satans who Manson invited to the Span Ranch were they lived so he could have some muscle cause he was expecting retaliation from the Black Panthers

@David1955 Tex and the girls did the killing. I don't think Manson told them to kill aanyone he just said go with Tex

@David1955 Benard Crowe andd Tex Watson were drug dealers

@David1955 Ok now you sound like another conspiracy nut. Lets just drop it

@David1955 There is a great documentary called "Manson in his own words " Narrated by Rob Zombie that lays out the events of the case as well as I've ever seen. You know the people at the ranch indentfied them selves as "The Family". The media invented 'The Manson Family " lable