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...most famous of such groups, so far, is the Charles Manson "family," but now and again other grisly items in the news reveal the breed. In New York this spring, police were searching for possible Devil worshipers in a grave-robbery incident. In Miami last summer, a 22-year-old woman Satanist killed a 62-year-old friend, stabbing him 46 times. Convicted of manslaughter, she drew a seven-year sentence, thanked Satan for her light penalty, and said that she had "enjoyed" the killing. In April she escaped from prison, and has not been recaptured...
...Results. That confusion should give the Justice Department pause when it decides whether to retry the Harrisburg Seven, in a case that has already cost the Government an estimated $1,500,000. Indeed, the conspiracy law, invoked against such varied defendants as Charles Manson, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Bobby Scale and members of the Mafia, has lately come under attack as one of the most elusive and elastic on the books. According to legal critics, U.S. prosecutors have increasingly and often unfairly exploited the fact that a conspiracy charge requires less evidence of actual injurious conduct than any other crime. There...
...true Pop madness, the scene is almost too depressing to contemplate. The awful banalities of mind blowing. Tarot cards. Astrology. The literature of the occult. Drugs. The tragicomic Satan cults with their swastikas and animal sacrifices. Then there is that farthest-out symbol of the Madness Revolution: Charlie Manson, the master demon of unreason, praying to be "dead in the head...
...decision, the court declared that capital punishment violates a section of the California constitution that prohibits "cruel or unusual punishment." Thus 107 men and women awaiting death in the state's prisons, including Sirhan Sirhan, Charles Manson and four members of his gang, will be spared. "Society," said the court, "can be protected from convicted criminals by far less onerous means than execution." Death, the justices added, "is, literally, an unusual punishment among civilized nations." And since the death penalty nowadays is neither swift nor certain anyway, it may not act as much of a deterrent. But Governor Ronald...
...immediate protest that the ad was actually a volley of crew-cut propaganda. It did seem to play on any good burgher's fear of the standard counterculture sins: drugs and VD, the death of the work ethic, draft dodging, and maybe some glint of Charles Manson...