Charles Manson, dead at age 83

[Catholic_Lady]

I'm not exactly sure what you are arguing, to be honest. We both agree that Manson shouldn't have gotten an innocent for reason of insanity verdict. If you really thought he had no control over his actions, or that he didn't realize he was doing something wrong, I dont see how you could think it's justifiable to give him a guilty verdict.

Well, no one is really 100% guilty of anything if you want to go really deep in thinking about these matters. But I'm fine with letting the law decide what makes one guilty or not, as long as the legal punishment is fair and the purpose of the punishment is to protect society from people that pose a danger to them and not about retribution. And honestly, mental institutions and "civilized" prisons are not really that different from what I have read and heard.

Also, as i said earlier. Psychopaths don't feel empathy and don't have a conscience. But unless there is something else extremely severe going on in their brains, they still know that killing innocent people in their homes is deemed wrong and illegal by society.

Is deemed wrong. But if they don't really see that it's wrong, then they will have no qualms murdering someone when they believe (erroneously or not) they can get away with it and not get caught.

Ok? If it's illegal, they ought to "have qualms about it." Unless of course, they don't have qualms about going to prison for life, which is exactly what should happen to people like Manson. Whether or not they think they'll get caught is irrelevant.