Manson Sentenced to Death

Date: April 19, 1971 • Location: Westwood, United States

Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders.

Charles Milles Manson was an American cult leader, murderer, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained notoriety for orchestrating the Tate–LaBianca murders, in which his followers murdered actress Sharon Tate and her unborn child, as well as six others across a two-day period. In total, his followers murdered ten people around Los Angeles in 1969.