Editing Charles Manson (section)

=== 1970s–1980s ===
[[File:Charles Manson 1971.jpg|thumb|upright|150 px|alt=Manson's|Manson's 1971 mugshot.]]
Manson was admitted to state prison from Los Angeles County on April 22, 1971, for seven counts of [[Murder|first-degree murder]] and one count of [[Conspiracy to murder|conspiracy to commit murder]] for the deaths of Abigail Ann Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Steven Earl Parent, Sharon Tate Polanski, Jay Sebring, and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Khokhobashvili |first=Krissi |date=2017-11-19 |title=Inmate Charles Manson Dies of Natural Causes |url=https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2017/11/19/inmate-charles-manson-dies-of-natural-causes/ |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=News Releases |language=en-US}}</ref> In 1972, the [[Supreme Court of California|California Supreme Court]] ruled that the state's death penalty statutes was unconstitutional, Manson was re-sentenced to life with the possibility of parole. His initial death sentence was modified to life on February&nbsp;2, 1977.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Little |first=Becky |date=2017-11-20 |title=Charles Manson Was Sentenced to Death. Why Wasn't He Executed? |url=https://www.history.com/articles/charles-manson-was-sentenced-to-death-why-wasnt-he-executed |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=HISTORY |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Manson Family murders: Key players in the Tate-LaBianca killings |url=https://abc7.com/manson-family-murders-charles-sharon-tate-tex-watson/782755/ |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=ABC7 Los Angeles |language=en}}</ref>

On December 13, 1971, Manson was convicted of first-degree murder in Los Angeles County Court for the July 25, 1969, death of musician Gary Hinman. He was also convicted of first-degree murder for the August 1969 death of Donald Shea. Following the 1972 decision of ''[[People v. Anderson|California v. Anderson]]'', California's [[Capital punishment in California|death sentences]] were ruled unconstitutional and that "any prisoner now under a sentence of death ... may file a petition for writ of ''[[habeas corpus]]'' in the superior court inviting that court to modify its judgment to provide for the appropriate alternative punishment of life imprisonment or life imprisonment without possibility of parole specified by statute for the crime for which he was sentenced to death."<ref>{{Cite web |title=People v. Anderson - 6 Cal.3d 628 - Fri, 02/18/1972 {{!}} California Supreme Court Resources |url=https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/people-v-anderson-22750 |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=scocal.stanford.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=People v. Anderson |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/3d/6/628.html |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=Justia Law |language=en}}</ref> Manson was thus eligible to apply for [[parole]] after seven years' incarceration.{{sfn|Bugliosi|Gentry|1974|pp=488–491}} His first parole hearing took place on November 16, 1978, at California Medical Facility in [[Vacaville, California|Vacaville]], where his petition was rejected.{{sfn|Bugliosi|Gentry|1974|pp=497–498}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles Manson Family and Sharon Tate-Labianca Murders – Cielodrive.com |url=http://www.cielodrive.com/charles-manson-denied-parole.php |access-date=April 24, 2012 |archive-date=May 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501212420/http://cielodrive.com/charles-manson-denied-parole.php |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Gerald Ford assassination attempt====
{{Main|Gerald Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento}}
On September 5, 1975, the Family returned to national attention when [[Lynette Fromme|Squeaky Fromme]] attempted to assassinate U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]].<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|502–511}} The attempt took place in [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]], to which she and fellow Manson follower [[Sandra Good]] had moved so that they could be near Manson while he was incarcerated at [[Folsom State Prison]]. A subsequent search of the apartment shared by Fromme, Good, and another Family recruit turned up evidence that, coupled with later actions on the part of Good, resulted in Good's conviction for conspiring to send threatening communications through the United States mail service and for transmitting death threats by way of interstate commerce. The threats involved corporate executives and U.S. government officials vis-à-vis supposed environmental dereliction on their part.<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|502–511}}

Fromme was sentenced to 15 years to life, becoming the first person sentenced under [[United States Code]] Title 18, chapter 84 (1965),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1751-|title=18 U.S.C. §&nbsp;1751|website=Law.cornell.edu|date=June 28, 2010|access-date=November 28, 2010|archive-date=July 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720042349/https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1751|url-status=live}}</ref> which made it a federal crime to attempt to assassinate the President of the United States. In December 1987, Fromme, serving a life sentence for the assassination attempt, escaped briefly from [[Federal Prison Camp, Alderson]] in [[West Virginia]]. She was trying to reach Manson because she heard that he had [[testicular cancer]]; she was apprehended within days.<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|502–511}} She was released on parole from [[Federal Medical Center, Carswell]] on August 14, 2009.<ref name="abc">{{cite news|title=Would-Be Assassin 'Squeaky' Fromme Released from Prison|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/MansonMurders/story?id=8327414&page=1|publisher=[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]|date=August 14, 2009|access-date=August 14, 2009|archive-date=August 16, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090816201405/http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/MansonMurders/story?id=8327414&page=1|url-status=live}}</ref>