Charles Manson, dead at age 83

[GrandizerII]

Lack of conscience means they lack that intuition that tells them what is right and wrong. And no, legally, he wasn't innocent nor should he have been found as such. One need not be fully in control of their own actions in order to be held responsible for what they do.

But they learn it from the world, even if they don't feel a moral compass inside themselves. Clearly, an adult in the US knows it's illegal to break into someone's house and murder a pregnant woman and her husband. You'd have to be severely mentally ill or mentally handicapped to not know that.

Bolded mine. Exactly. Often times, though, they aren't diagnosed as such, but are purely seen as evil.

I think Manson got exactly what was appropriate. Life in prison where he couldn't hurt anyone else.

Well, yeah, for the sake of the rest of society, prison for life was the right thing (or one of the right things) to sentence him to.