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Originally Posted by notcasesensitive
I'm not gonna look it up, but if [Charles Manson is] technically on death row, I don't think he's an eligible pick here (even if CA doesn't currently apply the death penalty).
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Just Wonking here, but Manson is not on death row. When the death penalty was ruled unconstitutional, all prisoners sentenced to death had their sentences commuted to life (and not life without parole, which is why you read about his parole hearings every couple of years). California's Death Row is at San Quentin. Charles Mansion is housed at Corcoran. Sirhan Sirhan, who also has a life sentence instead of a death sentence, is down in San Diego, but I could have sworn he was just up the road a bit at Pleasant Valley. CDCR must have moved him. You can track your favorite California prisoner, even if they're not a celebrity,
here. The nice thing about looking up Sirhan Sirhan, is of course, that you can search under his first OR his last name.
I also agree with ncs's decisions, and not just because they mirror my votes. Atticus is right about the rationale for the "No Death Row" rule, but I think the reason that the Amy Winehouse and Mindy McCready hits were so memorable was, in large part, because they were actually celebrities, not the anchor of the morning news in Portland, but someone the board knew about BEFORE the game.*
* I didn't know who Mindy McCready was until a couple years ago, and it was because of her problems with substance abuse and the law, but then again, my taste in female country singers runs more to Kacey Musgraves, who should have gotten a best album Grammy nomination instead of merely one for best country album.**
** None of the above statement should be taken as a dig against Neko Case, whose music I still adore. It's just that with her last album, I think she's completed her transition from alt-country to alt-rock.
