Reply #21: "If Susan Atkins committed this crime in Texas or Florida,

[dflprincess]

she would have never had brain cancer because she would have been dead long ago."

Actually no.

I can't remember if any of Manson's followers were sentenced to death or if it was just Charlie. But, he (or they) received the death sentence before the Supreme Court found that the way it was being used at that time was unconstitutional. I believe everyone who was on death row at the time regardless of what state they were in had their sentences commuted to life.