The report about Charles Manson's granted parole is not real.
Empire News, a self-proclaimed "satire" website said, "One of the most famous killers in the American prison system will be walking free. On Tuesday, Charles Manson, who is now 79 years old, was granted parole by the California Board of Parole and authorized by California Governor Jerry Brown," The report continues with the parole decision being a result of overcrowding circumstances in prisons, "The ruling, issued by three judges overseeing the state's efforts to ease the overcrowding, gives California until February 2016 to achieve their goals. But, the judges said, the state has to make elderly inmates and those with serious illnesses eligible for parole immediately."
This fake report immediately garnered thousands of shares and "likes" on Facebook just this week.
Manson was convicted of seven murders in Los Angeles in 1969, including the killings at Sharon Tate's Cielo Drive address, which were included in the Manson feature movie "Helter Skelter".
Sharon Tate and four other people who were present at the address that time were brutally murdered after Manson instructed Charles "Tex" Watson to take other "Manson family" members, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian to "that house where Melcher used to live" and "totally destroy everyone as gruesome as you can."
Manson's fury towards Terry Melcher, a music producer at the time, was because of the latter's promise to listen to Manson's music. The girls, treated as slaves, prepared the house and meals for his arrival, but Melcher never came.
The next two murders were of Leno LaBianca, supermarket mogul, and his wife Rosemary LaBianca, all carried out by members of his "family" at his instruction.
When found guilty, his original sentence was death, but was changed to "life in prison with the possibility of parole" in 1977 after a 1972 California Supreme Court ruling that said the state's "death penalty status at the time was unconstitutional."
In 2012, California denied Manson of parole after he vehemently claimed to be "very dangerous." Manson informed a psychologist, "I'm special. I'm not like the average inmate. I have spent my life in prison. I have put five people in the grave. I am a very dangerous man."
John Peck, a member of the Corcoran State Prison panel assigned to Manson's case, said, "This panel can find nothing good as far as suitability factors go."
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