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Is Charles Manson a serial killer?

-I do not think that Charles Manson is a serial killer because technically he did not kill anyone, even though he conspired to kill them. A serial killer, in my opinion, is someone who targets a specific group of people and develops a signature letting the forensic scientists identify that it is him. Therefore, because he technically did not kill numerous people and leave a signature, I do not believe that he is a serial killer

Are his family members serial killer?

I also do not think that the family members are serial killers because they were not under the right mindset when they were killing their victims. Technically only one of the members initially killed all the victims, and the rest of the members of the family stabbed the victim postmortem. The members of the family were brainwashed by Charles Manson, so technically the plotting of the murders was not their idea, and they only killed the victims to please Manson.

Do you think that all of these people should be executed?

I personally do not believe in the death penalty, no matter what the circumstances are. I do not think “an eye for an eye” is a policy by which our government should use. I believe that someone should spend the rest of their life in jail and not have any freedom, but it is not a human’s right to decide the life or the death of any other person.