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Defendants guilty of first degree murder. >> in my verdict i wanted to protect society. after all this is the united states of america and we have a heritage and this is something we must protect. >> they were all sentenced to dea death. >> are you prepared to die? has he talked to you about death? >> he's already dead. he's already dead. he has no thoughts, no opinions. he's an empty hole. he's infinite. >> tex watson who did the actual killing was convicted and sentenced to die in a separate trial. in 1972 the california supreme court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional. the sentences w...

>> two everis living there now could be rich and famous. nobody else could afford a house like that. >> manson had actually been at the house earlier that year looking for terry melcher. he moved out. but manson encountered the present a sharon tate, the wife of roman ro lan skpo lan ski. they cut wires to the house. a young man the property care taker was headed out of the driveway. tex confronted him with a five, then shot him several times the killing had begun. with one standing guard the others went inside the house, polanski was out of the country that night but his friend was asleep on ...

There is a guest bedroom. there is a woman sitting up in bed. it's abigail folger. >> heiress to the folger coffee fortune. >> she thought she was a friend of sharon and waves to her. susan atkins gives the finger wave back and continues down the hall. >> in the bedroom, she found per sharetate and tate's former boyfriend, she herded them in the room. >> at a certain point watson turned his back and he charged and he shot him and watson started stabbing and kicking. >> sharon tate quite naturally is screaming. crokowski and fol ger break out a side dhar. they delays after them. >> soon, everyo...

>> i believe what i'm told to believe. don't you? >> reporter: because of that california state supreme court ruling, the sentences were reduced to life in prison with the possibility of parole -- even for manson. and that touched off a debate that still rages, decades later. can people like these be rehabilitated? should they ever be released? >> there are so many reasons why i'm against parole. anthony dimaria has spent most of his adult life fighting parole for the killers of his uncle jay sebring. >> when somebody says, "well, i've changed. i've rehabilitated." well, you might have, but yo...

It was the home of leno and rosemary labianca. >> charlie says he'll go in, check it out. marley comes back out, gets text watson. they go if, first they catch lena labianca. they ask if anybody else is hooer? my wife is in the bedroom. >> then he gets the others who had begged to go with him this time. >> charlie tells them, go in there. do what you need to do. he drives off in the car. >> the la bianca's died as brutally as those the night before. found blindfolded and gagged. the crime scene created to horrify. >> with blood the killers had controlled, death to pigs. >> helter skelter, miss...