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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...
...unanimous decision, the court held that states cannot jail a man solely because he is too poor to pay a traffic fine. At issue was the case of Preston A. Tate, a Houston laborer and chronic scofflaw who had been fined $425 for nine traffic offenses. Unable to ante up, Tate was sent to a prison farm to work off his fine because, he said in a habeas corpus petition, "I am too poor...
...court in finding Tate's imprisonment a violation of his right to equal protection of the laws, sharply limited the traditional power of American judges to sentence poor defendants to "$30 or 30 days." The Constitution, said Justice William Brennan, forbids states to "limit the punishment to payment of the fine if one is able to pay, yet convert the fine into a prison term for an indigent defendant." In taking away the jail alternative, Brennan suggested various other means in which courts might deal with the poor, including the collection of fines on an installment plan...
HAVE YOU heard of Joe Orton? Tate? Joplin? Hendrix? Separating individual merit from phantasmagoric death-legend is the whole problem in these cases. If you are asked who Orton is, you had better be ready with information: he was a homosexual, a British playwright killed in a ritual hammer slaying in 1967. What comes up second when Orton's name is mentioned is the fact that he wrote Loot, Entertaining Mr. Sloane and several other black comedies. Loot, you see, has a corpse for its focus, just as Orton's life, ironically and grotesquely, had in the final tally...
...jurors heard Susan Atkins describe herself murdering Miss Tate, who was in her last month of pregnancy: "She said, 'Please, all I want to do is have my baby.' I said, 'Don't move, don't talk to me. I don't want to hear it.' I just stabbed her, and she fell, and I stabbed her again. I don't know how many times I stabbed her." Atkins dipped a towel in Miss Tate's blood and wrote PIG on the front door of the house...