Charles Manson.

Maybe a small consolation;
He had to live with himself…

Only thing, those folks don’t have much of a conscience or even a shred of moral sense

In another life, I had coffee with an acquaintance
He could talk offing someone like we talk fishing, and in the same breath get angry over what the dry cleaners did to his slacks
 
rkunsaw said:
He should have been executed in 1969
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California Gov. Jerry Brown fairly recently estimated that it costs Calif. a bare minimum of $75,560.00 per year to house a prisoner......Manson was in prison for 48 years = $3,626,880.00

Even though the cost has risen, Texas now estimates that it still only costs $1300.00 (for the drugs alone) to execute a prisoner by lethal injection.

Just sayin'.
 
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When there is irrefutable evidence to such a person's guilt, and the culprit even admits to it, I see NO reason why society should be obligated to "warehouse" these types at a huge cost every year. It would seem far better to spend that money on honest people who need some help.
 
You have to admit Charlie was Charlie right to the end. He didn't get religion, and become a minister. Then, at the parole hearing, have 8,000 "good Christians" sign a petition for granting parole.
Nope. Charlie wasn't going to share the spotlight with any god.
 
My husband and I were discussing him and the girls this morning There is NO excusing what they did because of their allegiance to this POS but we had to wonder WHAT drew them to him??? It was not his looks I doubt there was much in the way of charisma. Stockholm Syndrome? Something else? Just so odd
 
Charlie went after very young girls, with lots of emotional baggage. It was a cult. Charlie systematically got the girls isolated. He gave them a "purpose". The girls attracted dysfunctional males with offer of free sex. Charlie always kept the 'family' isolated, and kept total control of them. They couldn't eat unless he gave his permission.
(The DA ,Bugliosi wrote "Helter Skelter", a book about Manson.)
 
IKE said:
California Gov. Jerry Brown fairly recently estimated that it costs Calif. a bare minimum of $75,560.00 per year to house a prisoner......Manson was in prison for 48 years = $3,626,880.00

Even though the cost has risen, Texas now estimates that it still only costs $1300.00 to execute a prisoner by lethal injection.

Just sayin'.
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Your information is not correct. It costs far more to execute than it does to imprison.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/29552692/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/execute-or-not-question-cost/
 
California has a fair number of serial killers sitting on death row. The one that I find most despicable is Rodney Alcala, a.k.a. "The Dating Game Killer."

 
Charles Manson: The Incredible Story of the Most Dangerous Man Alive? I doubt that was true even in 1970. There are too many serial killers who killed more people, not to mention Jeffrey McDonald who killed his wife and two daughters because one of his daughters wet the bed. That's what I call dangerous.
 
I wonder if he was considered ""most dangerous" because of his ability to get others to do his will? He personally did not Kill but that made him no less guilty
 
Maybe, Marie. They may have felt he had the potential to kill many more people than he did.

People I consider truly dangerous are the predator-psychopaths who go on killing for 40 years or more. Charlie was too crazy and deranged to be a cold-blooded killer like those guys are. He wanted everyone to know what he did.
 
I figured that's what the $1300 was about. That's a very high price but I understand some of their earlier sources have refused to sell the drugs when they found out they were going to be used to kill people. They probably have to pay top dollar.

It's false equivalence to only talk about the cost of execution drugs. If you're going to talk about how much it costs to incarcerate someone as long as Manson, it seems only honest to talk about the total price of execution, and that also includes years of incarceration beforehand.
 
We call people like him a wasted space ,What a waste of money keeping him alive all those years .....
money that could have helped homeless or under privileged people
 
I still think there is a lot to be said for "let the punishment" fit the crime. If more people failed to get away with crime, fewer crimes (I think) would happen. Many believe they won't get caught, but more I think, don't worry if they do. Because they are miserable, or sick to begin with, and the worse they see is prison. I may be wrong, but our prisons today, are a lot more cushy than in "days gone by".
 
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