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On 9 August 1969, Sharon Tate and four others were butchered by members of Charles Manson's Family. The next night, a married couple in a neighborhood far distant from that of the Tate residence were slaughtered in similar fashion by members of the same group. Manson and four of his followers were brought to trial in June, 1970, found guilty of the murders, and sentenced to die. Their sentences were later commuted to life in prison when the death penalty was abolished in 1972. Reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977 did not affect the revised sentences as re-sentencing them (or any of the other inmates whose death sentences had been commuted to life during the no death penalty phase) to the original penalty was deemed cruel and unusual. On 4 June 2014, the Empire News web site published an article positing that Manson was soon going to be released from prison due to overcrowding: By the following day links and excerpts referencing this article were being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered the item mistaking it for a genuine news article. However, the article was just a bit of satire from Empire News, a fake news web site whose disclaimer notes that it is is a satirical and entertainment website. In July 2017 the fake news site BreakingNews365.net ran a false story with the identical premise (Charles Manson to be released on parole, to Johnson County, TX), this one holding that Manson would soon be released from prison and located to a small country home in Joshua, Texas. In fact, Charles Manson is still in prison, having been denied parole twelve times. His next parole hearing is scheduled for 2027, when he will be 92 years old.
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