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During the penalty phase of the trial, Atkins was again questioned about her attitude to Tate and her role in Tate's death.
She said, " They didn't even look like people ...
I didn't relate to Sharon Tate as being anything but a store mannequin ... sounded just like an IBM machine ... She kept begging and pleading and pleading and begging, and I got sick of listening to her, so I stabbed her.
" The defendants were found guilty and sentenced to death on March 29, 1971.
Watson was tried separately after extradition from Texas.
Psychiatrists testified that he appeared to be feigning insanity, and while he admitted his role in all of the killings, he refused to acknowledge his responsibility, and was widely quoted by the press when he stated that he had not noticed that Sharon Tate was pregnant.
He was found guilty and sentenced to death on October 21, 1971.
The death sentences were later automatically commuted to life in prison after the California Supreme Court's People v. Anderson decision resulted in the invalidation of all death sentences imposed in California before 1972., Manson, Watson, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten remain incarcerated.
Atkins died in prison on September 24, 2009.

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