>> after a grueling nine-month trial, charles manson and his codefendants were sentenced to death. >> we put on a monumental amount of evidence against each defendant. >> finally, for the prosecutor and others involved with the case, there was closure. or so he thought. >> i'm driving the car, turn on the radio. the u.s. supreme court has set aside the death penalty for everyone on death row around the country. it was about 600 people. >> 600 prisoners, including all of those convicted of the tate-labianca murders. manson, the three girls and text watson who was tried separately. sprayed death, manson would spend his life in prison. >> he doesn't mind prison. that's his home. so he's gotten away, in a large sense, with murder. >> the victims families were