Thread: For Capital Punishment or Against it?
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Old 09-05-2007, 11:54 AM   #238 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by nuttyjoe View Post
There is another serial killer in prison that is even up for prole soon! (Although he is unlikely to get it) I'm sure you all know of Charles Manson. Do you think he can be cured? He won't be put to death-ever-because over the years he has become a symbol of our culture's obsession with the sick and depraved. He is a media icon if there ever was one. Can anyone explain to me the need or not of the death penalty using Manson as an example?
First of all, Manson was originally given the death sentence. Then the USSC (or whatever judiciary panel there was) threw out the death penalty as being unconstitutional. So all death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment, including Manson and his followers.

Manson and his followers were drug addicts. They took LSD. There is no way that Manson will ever be cured. He is still a crazy SOB.

I guess to sentence Manson to death at this time requires another trial. But I don't think we want to hear the grisly details of what happened in 1969. Vincent Bugliosi wrote a book about that.
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