Reply #89: No

[sandnsea]

The Supreme Court overturned various aspects of the death penalty, along with rulings in California. Those rulings are why Manson and Sirhan Sirhan had their sentences commuted to life.

In 1972, specifically after that 12 year old girl was chopped up around Chico, there was a push to pass death penalty legislation to comply with the new court rulings.

I lived in California from 1960 to 1973, and again from 1976 to 1980.