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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Oh, no question he was sentenced to death. But then Cantafordya rescinded the death penalty, so he was commuted to life. When they reinstated it the courts decided that the sentence couldn't be retroactively uncommuted.
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I'm not familiar with that aspect of the case against Manson (or much else about him other than his followers killed a bunch of people) but wouldn't that be a case of Expost Facto? Don't criminals sentenced under one law remain sentenced even if the laws are rewritten and vice versa (ie one who commits what is later deemed a criminal act cannot be prosecuted as there was no law at the time)?
