43 years after Manson’s heyday, when he confabulated a sort of cult and persuaded his young and attractive acolytes to murder for him – he was found guilty in seven murders, including the death of actress Sharon Tate – he now still rambles on about his cultic beliefs, but seems rather incoherent and disorganized in thought and behavior.
If he attends this parole hearing, it will be the first he’s showed up to since 1997, when Manson incoherently ranted for hours about his cult and his innocence:
“I’m not saying that I wasn’t involved. I’m saying that I did not break man’s law nor did I break God’s law. Consider that in the judgments that you have for yourselves. Good day. Thank you,” he said in address to the parole board.”
Manson narrowly escaped the death penalty when California Supreme Court outlawed capital punishment for a spell in 1972. He is expected to carry out his days in Corcoran State Prison, where he is protected from himself and a outer hostile world, and has the privilege of going outside into the yard.