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...object was to get one or more mavericks who would contradict the majority and thereby hang the jury. The stratagem did not work. Last week, after nine months of endless testimony and agonized deliberations, the seven-man, five-woman panel that had convicted Charles Manson, Leslie Van Houten, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel also recommended the death penalty for all four. Then Judge Charles Older did something unusual: he commended the jurors for service "above and beyond the call of duty." If it were within his power, he said, he would award each member a medal of honor. Concluded Older...
...allow these people to speak, would have been tantamount to letting Charles Manson drum up support for more killings," he added...
Ignoring defense pleas for a "gift of life," a California jury yesterday returned a sentence of death in San Qentin's gas chamber for Charles Manson and three women accomplices-Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins, and Leslie Van Houten-convicted of the Sharon Tate murders...
Blood Writing. The jury, sitting for its 36th week, had already pronounced the guilt of Manson, Atkins and two other Manson followers, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten. Now, under California law, a second trial is under way to determine the penalty. While the jury still will not hear a formal defense of insanity-Manson has forbidden it-the panel cannot escape the implications of the women's behavior and their words...
Legal Point. In the rest of her statements, Atkins calculatedly struck at the successful prosecution case. Earlier testimony, including her own before a grand jury and Kasabian's during the trial, had accused Manson of conceiving the murders. His motive was said to be a desire to make whites believe that a black uprising had begun...