BY: CIARA LONG

Vincinet BugliosiProtagonist

Born August 18, 1934 Graduated from UCLA Law School in 1964. An American Attorney & Author. Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial.

CHARLES MANSON

Antagonist

- Hitler is Mansons Idol “He said that Hitler was a tuned-in guy who had

leveled the karma of the Jews.” (Helter Skelter, Brooks Poston 316)

-Leader of a cult group who lived in a Spahn Ranch north of Los Angeles.

-The members of the "family" believed he was God and did anything and everything he asked for.

- The Book of Revelations in the Bible, and The Beatles (specifically the “white album) were speaking to him.

Helter Skelter Citation: Bugliosi, Vincent. Helter Skelter. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1974.

HERE ARE ONLY A FEW

VICTIMS OF THE MANSON FAMILY MURDERS

Leno & Rosemary LaBianca

Left to Right: Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Fogler, Voytek Frykowsi, & Steven Parent.

TATE HOUSE MURDERS (10050 CIELO DRIVE): Saturday, August 9, 1969

3301 WAVERLY DRIVE MURDERS: Sunday, August 10, 1969

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFr4zSA_EhI&feature=related

The TATE-LABIANCA MURDERERS

Susan Atkins Leslie Van Houten Patricia Krenwinkel Tex Watson.

DEFENDANTS

Linda KasabianProsecution

Witness

TATE MURDERERS•Tex Watson• Susan Atkins•Linda Kasabian•Patricia Krenwinkel

LABIANCA MURDERERS• Leslie Van Houten• Patricia Krenwinkel• Tex WatsonPresent • Steve “Clem” Grogan• Linda Kasabian• Charles Manson

Setting Summer of August 9, 1969 – April 19,

1971 Los Angeles, California. The setting and atmosphere of this book

isn’t very pleasant.

Why is it important?

Exposition• The book begins with the night, August 9, 1969,

the Tate Residence was slaughtered following the next night the murder of the LaBiancas.

• “The family”, victims, attorneys, and others are introduced.

• On November 18, 1969, Bugliosi had been given his greatest responsibility to date: trying the Tate-LaBianca murder case.

Rising Action Linda Kasabian voluntarily surrendered to police.  She

wanted to tell her story * 

Linda tied everything together – 12 days on trial and she never changed her story (unlike Susan Atkins)

Irving Kenerick – Charles attorney would stall the trial *

Manson snuck in a newspaper in which Nixon declared “Manson Guilty” *

Mid-Trial, Ronald Hughes, Leslie V.H.’s attorney goes missing. 3-4 weeks later, he was found dead. Killer: Unknown.

Trial out for 10 days.

Climax Jury deliberated for forty-two hours and

forty minutes over a nine day period.

January 25, 1971…Charles Manson, Petricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins, and Leslie Van Houten…the jury finds the defendants GUILTY!

The reading of the verdicts took 38 minutes *

Falling Action California Supreme Court ruling in 1972

declaring the state's death penalty law unconstitutional. 

The death sentences for the four convicted defendants, as well as for Tex Watson who had been convicted and sentenced to death in a separate trial in 1971, were commuted to life in prison.

Those who are part of the family continue to seek those who left the family to kill them since they know too much.

ResolutionManson serves a lifetime sentence and periodically comes up for parole. His next parole date is in 2012.

Patricia Krenwinkel is still aliveTex Watson is still alive*Susan Atkins died last winter with terminal brain cancerLeslie Van Houton set free, on parole. Although Sharon Tate’s mother started petition; “Why should she be free?” *Linda Kasabian is still alive.

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ThemesDrugs, lies, and sex. The American Dream.

Revenge.Justice.

Rating of Book

Very Detailed.

I never knew who Charles Manson was, and now, he is one of the most interesting people I know. Vincent Bugliosi did a fantastic job.

Capital Punishment

TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reachedthe author at his home in California. Are you sorry he wasn't executed?

I don't use the word sorry, but he should have been

executed, and I told the jury, if this was not a proper

case for the imposition of the death penalty, then no

case ever would be. Manson did not deserve to live.

Capital Punishment is “punishment by death for committing a crime.

•Mostly commonly used in convictions for murder.*Imposed for crimes such as

- Robbery- Kidnapping- Rape- Treason

(Taylor, Robert W. “Capital Punishment.” World Book Student. World Book, 2010. Web. 1 Mar. 2010).

Methods Guillotine (beheading) – medevial times Electrocution Gas Chamber Hanging Firing Squad Lethal Injection: Three drugs- Sodium thiopental is used to knock the inmate unconsciousness.- Pancuronium bromide to cause muscle paralysis and respiratory

arrest.- Potassium chloride to stop the heart.

Stop hey what’s that sound By: Buffalo Spring field

There's something happinin herewhat it is aint exactly cleartheres a man with a gun over theretellin me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children what's that sound everybody look what's goin down

There's battle lines being drawnnobody's right if everybody's wrongyoung people speakin there mindsgetting so much resistance far behind

It's time we stop,hey what's that soundeverybody look what's goin down

What a field day for the heata thousand people in the streetsingin songs that they carry insidemostly say hurray for our side

It's time we stop, hey what's that sound everybody look what's goin down

There are lawyer strikes deepinto your life it will creepit starts when your always afraidstep out of line the man come and take you away

You better stophey what's that soundeverybody look what's going down…

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PoemSimple it seems but complex it isCollection of inspired follies for some, a challenge for othersA story without a title, a journey without destinationA prolonged joke for some, a momentary pause for others

Starts as a friend and deceives as a foeA bed of roses for some, and unending marathon for othersA frank deceiver, a bargainer who always wonA loose structure incident for some, a nightmare for others

Yesterday, today, tomorrow, and so on…A meaningful nonsense for some, a tense snare for othersPhilosophers’ ever green question and historians’ foster childAn equivocal notion for some, a plausible interlude for others

Real it seems but dramatic it isA mirage in the desert for some, a concrete impression for othersA meaningless enigma, a purposeless clamour, understood by noneStill…an optimistic wait for some, a detestable weight for others

By: Aamir Aziz

What’s the whole debate? Constitutionality Irrevocable Mistakes: incapable of being retracted or revoked.

Deterrence: a negative motivational influence.

Retribution: a justly deserved penalty.

Humane Cost of Death v. Life in Prison Race Income Level Attorney Quality

Is capital punishment

constitutional?

FOR “Simply because an execution method may result in pain,

either by accident or as an inescapable consequence of death, does not establish the sort of 'objectively intolerable risk of harm' that qualifies as cruel and unusual... Kentucky has adopted a method of execution believed to be the most humane available, one it shares with 35 other States... Kentucky's decision to adhere to its protocol cannot be viewed as probative of the wanton infliction of pain under the Eighth Amendment... Throughout our history, whenever a method of execution has been challenged in this Court as cruel and unusual, the Court has rejected the challenge. Our society has nonetheless steadily moved to more humane methods of carrying out capital punishment” - John G. Roberts

[quoting the opinion of the Court from Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U. S. 825, 842, 846 (1994)]

(Baze v. Rees (529 KB). US Supreme Court, in a decision written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts. 16 April 2008)

AGAINST “Death is... an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its

pain, in its finality, and in its enormity... The fatal constitutional infirmity in the punishment of death is that it treats 'members of the human race as nonhumans, as objects to be toyed with and discarded. [It is] thus inconsistent with the fundamental premise of the Clause that even the vilest criminal remains a human being possessed of common human dignity. As such it is a penalty that 'subjects the individual to a fate forbidden by the principle of civilized treatment guaranteed by the [Clause]. I therefore would hold, on that ground alone, that death is today a cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Clause... I would set aside the death sentences imposed... as violative of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.”- William J. Brennan

[quoting himself from Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 257 (1972)][quoting C.J. Warren from Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86, 101 (1958)]

(William J. Brennan, JD. Justice of the US Supreme Court. Dissenting opinion in Gregg V. Georgia (347 KB). 2 July 1976)

8th Amendment The 8th Amendment reads: “excessive

bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”

14th Amendment “All persons born or naturalized in the

United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

IRREVOCABLE MISTAKES

Cameron Willingham

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/multimedia-resources-death-penalty

As of November 3, 2009 there have been 139 exonerations in 26 different States.

FOR"...No system of justice can produce results which are 100% certain all the time. Mistakes will be made in any system which relies upon human testimony for proof. We should be vigilant to uncover and avoid such mistakes. Our system of justice rightfully demands a higher standard for death penalty cases. However, the risk of making a mistake with the extraordinary due process applied in death penalty cases is very small, and there is no credible evidence to show that any innocent persons have been executed at least since the death penalty was reactivated in 1976... The inevitability of a mistake should not serve as grounds to eliminate the death penalty any more than the risk of having a fatal wreck should make automobiles illegal..."

- Steven D. Stewart

Steven D. Stewart, JD. Prosecuting Attorney for Clark County Indiana. Message on the Clark County Prosecutor website accessed. 6 Aug. 2008.

AGAINST"...Since the reinstatement of the modern death penalty, 87 people have been freed from death row because they were later proven innocent. That is a demonstrated error rate of 1 innocent person for every 7 persons executed. When the consequences are life and death, we need to demand the same standard for our system of justice as we would for our airlines... It is a central pillar of our criminal justice system that it is better that many guilty people go free than that one innocent should suffer... Let us reflect to ensure that we are being just. Let us pause to be certain we do not kill a single innocent person. This is really not too much to ask for a civilized society." - Russ Feingold

Russ Feingold, JD. US Senator(D-WI). Introducing the “National Death Penalty Moratorium Act of 2000. 26 April 2000.

Decide for yourself… Are YOU for or against Capital

Punishment? I hope I have encouraged you all to

research more and gain and independent decision for yourself on Capital Punishment.

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