Charles Manson, perhaps America's most notorious criminal, was convicted of ordering seven murders in California in 1969 as the head of quasi-cult Manson Family. Originally sentenced to death, his conviction was commuted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole after California ruled the death sentence unconstitutional.
Yesterday it was announced that Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the terrorist who orchestrated the attack on the United States diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya in 2011, was convicted of three counts of terrorism but not the murders of four Americans there, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.
So tell me....what's the difference in these two cases? Neither of these monsters actually committed the killings but both were culpable. The 'not guilty' verdict on murder charges against Khatallah is nothing short of an outrage.
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