manson, the three girls and tex watson, tried separately. manson would spend his life in prison. >> he doesn't mind prison. that's his home. so he's gotten away, in a large sense, with murder. >> the victim's families were enraged. >> sharon's father, if any of them ever got out his first thought was i will kill them. they won't make it off of the grounds. i will kill them. >> just seven years after being convicted and charged with the death penalty the manson family defendants were eligible for release. >> think about the parole hearings all of those years later with sharon's mom sitting no further than you and i to the killers, and having to listen to the details of the crimes over and over. >> sharon was sentenced to death without a fair trial or without a jury. i was sentenced to life in prison without any possibility of parole. and i say to you, should susan atkins' sentence be any less? >> there was an outrage, injustice, sadness, a realization this would never end. >> the children of the '60s that you call the manson family. >> the pa